编辑工作,从广义上说是人类文化活动的一种形式;从狭义上说,是“新闻出版机构从事组织、审读、编选、加工、整理稿件等工作”,它包括书籍、报纸、刊物、广播、电视、电影、音像图片等等的编辑,而每一种具体的编辑工作又都有其自身的特性与任务。我们在这里所说的编辑工作,是就一般的意义上来讲的。 Editing is a form of human cultural activities in a broad sense. In narrow sense, it refers to the work of organizing, reviewing, selecting, processing and sorting manuscripts by press and publication agencies. It includes books, newspapers, periodicals and radio , Television, film, audiovisual pictures, etc., and each specific editorial work has its own characteristics and tasks. The editorial work we are talking about here is in a general sense.