correcting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors producing or working to a style checklist to ensure consistency in hyphenation, capitalisation, formatting of references, etc; sub-editing text written by a number of authors to ensure consistent house style; maintaining awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage with a view to ensuring they're appropriate for the readership; discussing and resolving any potentially libellous sections with the commissioning editor and author; retrieving articles from archives and rearranging within publications; preparing preliminary pages for the title, contents and preface of a publication; overseeing the work of indexers, typesetters and designers; ensuring that publications are prepared on budget and to schedule typesetting and designing layout; managing marketing and business activities