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Redaction generally refers to the editing of text to turn it into a form suitable for publication, or to the result of such an effort. Editing is the process of preparing language, images, or sound for publication through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications. ...
To publish is to make publicly known, and in reference to text and images, it can mean distributing paper copies to the public, or putting the content on a website. ...
 A US government document that has been edited prior to release. In the context of United States government agency documents, redaction generally refers more specifically to the process of removing classified information from a document prior to its publication, during declassification. Download high resolution version (440x632, 101 KB)Dr. Sidney Gottliebs approval of an MKULTRA subproject on LSD. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
Download high resolution version (440x632, 101 KB)Dr. Sidney Gottliebs approval of an MKULTRA subproject on LSD. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
An agency is a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function, such as a customs agency or a space agency. ...
A typical classified document. ...
Declassification is the process of documents that formerly were classified becoming available to the public. ...
Literary redaction
In the study of literature, redaction can also refer to a form of editing, in which multiple source texts are combined together (redacted), and are subjected to minor alteration to make it appear that they are a single work. Often this is simply a method of collecting together a series of writings on a vaguely similar theme, and creating a definitive and coherent work. Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction...
Editing is the process of preparing language, images, or sound for publication through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications. ...
On occasion, the person(s) performing the redaction – the redactor(s) – add brief elements of their own. The reasons for doing so are varied, and can include the addition of elements to adjust the underlying conclusions of the text to suit the redactor's opinion. More commonly, the additions during the redaction simply involve the addition of a framing story, such as the tale of Sheherazade which frames the collection of folk tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. For the story teller in the Arabian Nights or the 1001 Nights see Shahrazad. ...
Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ...
Sometimes the source texts are interlaced together, particularly when discussing closely related details, things, or people. This is particularly common when source texts contain alternative versions of the same story, and slight alterations are often made in this circumstance, simply to make the texts appear to agree, and thus the resulting redacted text appear to be coherent. Such a situation is proposed by the documentary hypothesis, which proposes that multiple redactions occurred during the creation of the torah, often combining texts, which have rival political attitudes and aims, together. Many historians and academics in the fields of linguistics and source criticism have proposed the theory known as the documentary hypothesis: that the Five Books of Moses (the Torah) represent a combination of documents from different sources rather than a single text authored by one individual. ...
Torah () is a Hebrew word meaning teaching, instruction, or law. It is the central and most important document of Judaism revered by Jews through the ages. ...
The work of redactors is as old as literature itself. Redactional processes can be documented in numerous disciplines, including ancient literary works and biblical studies. Much has been written on the role of redaction in creating meaning for texts in various formats. For example, in the field of biblical studies, see John Barton, Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5: 644-647; or Odil Hannes Steck, Old Testament Exegesis, 2nd edition (Atlanta: Scholars Press), 74-93.
Redactional fatigue is an important related concept: When making changes to a large text, a redactor may occasionally overlook a piece of text that conflicts with the redactional goals. Since many important ancient texts are likely to have been redacted at least once, such snippets open a window into an earlier form of the text. The nature of the conflict between the bulk of a redacted text and the contradictory windows can suggest what the goals of the redactor might have been.
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