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['Documentary editing'] became current in the later 1970s to describe the process of creating reading texts intended to capture the substance and quality of the source texts so that the editorial texts would have substantially the same evidentiary value a

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['Documentary editing'] became current in the later 1970s to describe the process of creating reading texts intended to capture the substance and quality of the source texts so that the editorial texts would have substantially the same evidentiary value as their sources.

Citation Source: 
Kline 1998

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology