Editing Creative Theory

Author: Xu Baorong
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Publish Date: 1999-12-01
Features: The structure of this book is based on theory as the longitude and application as the latitude, intertwining them together. It neither moves from abstract to abstract nor from concrete to concrete, but strives to elevate theory from practical application, and to interpret application by raising it to a theoretical and systematic level. This allows readers to not only grasp the principles and gain theoretical understanding, but also to apply them, inspiring them to unleash their creative potential in editing work in practice. Because the power of theory is immense, and ultimately, the great power of theory must serve the practice of editing work. This book also attempts to take a comprehensive grasp as the trunk and specific practices as the branches, capturing the macro by looking down on the micro. Some specific arguments in this book also follow a similar approach. For example, exploring editing patterns, as mentioned in some papers and monographs, but the three patterns proposed by the author—seeking commonality, seeking difference, seeking harmony, and seeking mutual benefit among commonality, difference, and harmony—were first elaborated by the author in 1987. Researching and mastering editing patterns is very important for editing creativity and doing a good editing job. The issue of editing patterns deserves everyone's attention.