Critique of Manuscript-Correction/ The Role of Editors in Presenting the Author: A review of Toghray Mashhadi's biography in his newly published Book of Essays, Fatima Mehri

The Role of Editors in Presenting the Author  A Review of Toghray Mashhadi's Biography in His Newly Published Book of Essays  Fatemeh Mehri Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University  [email protected]   Abstract Researchers in the field of editing and correction manuscripts consider the writing of introductions as part of the correction process. The introduction of a corrected work usually includes an explanation of the author's life and the nature the author’s works, as well as the thoughts, and the style of writing conveyed in them, and descriptions about different available editions of the work, method of editing and corrections. The preface writing editor uses the same author’s other works and various other sources to make those alterations and corrections. This article is a review and analysis of the introduction note written on Toghray Mashhadi's Book of Essays, as corrected and published by Seyyed Mohammad Sahebi, and point to some of its errors and shortcomings. For this purpose, in the first place Toghray’s other works were consulted and secondly other Tadhkirah writings in the peninsula region were sought as sources. The final part of the paper highlights some of the mistakes that were made in use of the resources for the introduction and other notes in the book.