Convenience Editing in Medical Sciences: Professional Expertise vis-à-vis Linguistic Virtuosity

This study strived to specify and particularize Iranian medical field specialists and EFL teachers’ predominant and overriding textual interventions, which fall within the ambit of convenience editing. To this end, we required ۲۰ field specialists and ۲۰ EFL instructors to edit the unedited versions of ۸۰ published medical research articles in a way that rendered them apt for publication in quality medical journals. We categorized the obtained data of the edited articles using an editing strategy framework that distinguished four editing micro-strategies and five macro-strategies. The findings revealed that medical specialists and EFL teachers’ micro-editing strategies outnumbered their macro-editing ones. Furthermore, there were significant differences between the editing micro-strategy uses of the above-mentioned groups of the participants. The results highlighted the need for a synergic collaboration between the medical field specialists and the EFL teachers to ameliorate medical articles’ formal, stylistic, and genre-related features and to expedite their publication process.

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convenience editing ، EFL teachers ، medical field specialists ، medical research articles ، medical sciences ، convenience editing ، EFL teachers ، medical field specialists ، medical research articles ، medical sciences