Dialogic Editing in Academic and Professional Writing: Engaging the Trace of the Other

This book brings attention to the communicative process of editing as a dialogic experience that is attentive to the voice of the Other and underlines an ethical turn for the editing process.

The volume focuses on an essential, yet undertheorized, aspect of the communicative practice of editing by reading and receiving the voice of the Other and offering feedback toward assisting the text to find a voice without turning it into the voice of the editor. Utilizing the theoretical and philosophical frameworks of a diverse group of leading scholars and philosophers, contributors to this volume explore the editing process as connected to communication ethics that calls for discernment of what matters.

With its philosophical underpinnings, this book will especially be of interest to researchers and students in multiple disciplines in humanities and the social sciences, including communication studies, dialogue studies, philosophy, literature, composition studies, education, history, anthropology, psychology, sociology, religious studies, and political science.

Özüm Üçok-Sayrak is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University (United States). Her research interests include communication ethics, philosophy of communication, ethics and epistemology, contemplative education, and communicative construction of identity. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Review of Communication, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Human Studies, Atlantic Journal of Communication, and Symbolic Interaction. She is the author of Aesthetic Ecology of Communication Ethics: Existential Rootedness (2019). Dr. Üçok- Sayrak is the current editor of Qualitative Research Reports in Communication.

Janie Harden Fritz is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University (United States) and holds the William Patrick Power, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Academic Leadership (2019–2024). Her research focuses on communicative practices that constitute, sever, and restore the ties that bind individuals to the institutions of which they are a part. She is the author of Professional Civility: Communicative Virtue at Work (2013). Dr. Fritz is editor in chief of Listening/Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture and past editor of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.

Kristen Lynn Majocha is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (United States) and serves as the Director of Forensics. Her research focuses on religious communication, ethics, and pedagogy. She has published her work in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Communication and Religion. She is editor of the Iowa Journal of Communication, which was recently named journal of the year by the Central States Communication Association.