Confused About Editing Process
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 1:28 pm
Hi
When I first joined, my first five articles were accepted straight away. I then started to get some rejections from the editor. There were/are definitely problems with wordiness in the articles, so I effectively re-wrote the offending articles based on the feedback from the editor.
The last three articles that I wrote were simply deleted. I'd written and submitted them before I started to get the rejections. I think that due to the Christmas and New Year break there had been some delays in the editing process so it possibly looked like I wasn't listening to the feedback from the editors. I got an email with editorial comments in all cases - wordiness was the culprit again. I can understand why they wouldn't want to have to keep feeding back the same comments.
Here's the confusion.
The email says:
"We have reviewed your content. Unfortunately, we can no longer consider this article for approval. Please do not resubmit." The email gives lots of other feedback on the article, in terms of wordiness and use of commas too.
So I'm now wondering what I can do.
If I rewrite the article entirely and resubmit, this would appear to contradict the editor's instruction. Does the site allow you to submit a 'new version' of an article that was previously deleted? I can't imagine it does. If it does, why is that any different to submitting a new version under a rejected title? If it doesn't, what that effectively means is that I can never submit an article under that title again, even if it conforms to every guideline and is top-notch quality. That strikes me as being bad for the site.
I've got 2 new articles that I want to submit in due course, but will be making sure that I am very confident that none of these problems exist before I submit them. It is probably best to just forget these three articles and submit brand new content.
I was just curious if anybody could shed any light on when and why an editor outright deletes something versus rejecting for resubmission. I don't think the issues of wordiness with these 3 were any more or less serious than the issues with the ones before, but they've now been edited, resubmitted and accepted.
When I first joined, my first five articles were accepted straight away. I then started to get some rejections from the editor. There were/are definitely problems with wordiness in the articles, so I effectively re-wrote the offending articles based on the feedback from the editor.
The last three articles that I wrote were simply deleted. I'd written and submitted them before I started to get the rejections. I think that due to the Christmas and New Year break there had been some delays in the editing process so it possibly looked like I wasn't listening to the feedback from the editors. I got an email with editorial comments in all cases - wordiness was the culprit again. I can understand why they wouldn't want to have to keep feeding back the same comments.
Here's the confusion.
The email says:
"We have reviewed your content. Unfortunately, we can no longer consider this article for approval. Please do not resubmit." The email gives lots of other feedback on the article, in terms of wordiness and use of commas too.
So I'm now wondering what I can do.
If I rewrite the article entirely and resubmit, this would appear to contradict the editor's instruction. Does the site allow you to submit a 'new version' of an article that was previously deleted? I can't imagine it does. If it does, why is that any different to submitting a new version under a rejected title? If it doesn't, what that effectively means is that I can never submit an article under that title again, even if it conforms to every guideline and is top-notch quality. That strikes me as being bad for the site.
I've got 2 new articles that I want to submit in due course, but will be making sure that I am very confident that none of these problems exist before I submit them. It is probably best to just forget these three articles and submit brand new content.
I was just curious if anybody could shed any light on when and why an editor outright deletes something versus rejecting for resubmission. I don't think the issues of wordiness with these 3 were any more or less serious than the issues with the ones before, but they've now been edited, resubmitted and accepted.