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A draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, including the President's handwritten annotations. In the context of written composition, drafting refers to any process of generating preliminary versions of a written work. Drafting happens at any stage of the writing process as writers generate trial versions of the text they're developing.
A manuscript is the work that an author submits to a publisher, editor, or producer for publication. Especially in academic publishing , manuscript can also refer to an accepted document, reviewed but not yet in a final format, distributed in advance as a preprint .
Standard manuscript format is a formatting style for manuscripts of short stories, novels, poems and other literary works submitted by authors to publishers.Even with the advent of desktop publishing, making it possible for anyone to prepare text that appears professionally typeset, many publishers still require authors to submit manuscripts within their respective guidelines.
Depending on local conventions, underscores (underlines) may be used on manuscripts (and historically on typescripts) to indicate the special typefaces to be used: [2] [3] single dashed underline for stet, 'let it stand', proof-reading mark cancelled. single straight underline for italic type; single wavy underline for bold type
Sometimes a composer's autograph starts as a fair copy, continuing as a draft. For example, the Fantasia in the late 1730s autograph of Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 906, is a fair copy, but halfway through the (likely incomplete) Fugue the manuscript gradually shifts to a draft with several corrections. [41]
Manuscripts in Tocharian languages, written on palm leaves, survived in desert burials in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia. Ironically, the manuscripts that were being most carefully preserved in the libraries of antiquity are virtually all lost. Papyrus has a life of at most a century or two in relatively humid Italian or Greek conditions; only ...
I would not link the "author manuscript" with the PMC tag. There may be significant differences between the submitted manuscript and the final version that has undergone extensive peer review. JFW | T@lk 00:32, 24 October 2008 (UTC) PMC is not necessarily manuscripts; a number of publishers deposit full versions, formatted in PMC's special XML.
Copy editing (also known as copyediting and manuscript editing) is the process of revising written material ("copy") to improve quality and readability, as well as ensuring that a text is free of errors in grammar, style, and accuracy.