编辑学是一门实践性、应用性很强的学科。学了编辑学之后,如果能从理论上说得头头是道而不能动手编好书、编好刊,那就无异于历史上“纸上谈兵”的赵括。但是,如果以为学编辑学就是学些编书、编刊的手艺,只会“照着葫芦画瓢”,对理论一窍不通或一知半解,也就难以创造性地做好编辑工作,难以提高、发展编辑工作,难以成为一个编辑家,同样也是不够的。编辑理论是在编辑实践活动基础上升华而成的,它来自实践。但编辑理论形成后,又会反过来推动编辑工作的前进。对做好编辑工作来说很重要的预见性,也不仅来自编辑实践,更来自编辑理论的力量。哲学上说的:脱离实际的理论是空洞的理论,没有理论指导的实践是盲目的实践,这对于编辑学来说,同样是完全适用的。 Editorial is a practical, highly applied subject. After learning editing, if we can theoretically justify and can not make a good book, compiled a good periodical, it is tantamount to the history of “paper” Zhao Kuo. However, if we think that learning editing is just learning how to compile and compile a book, we can only “draw on the gourd” and know nothing of the theory or know a little about it, so that it is hard to creatively edit the work and make it difficult to improve and edit the work. It is not enough to be an editor. Editing theory is based on the editing activities of sublimation made, it comes from practice. However, when the editorial theory is formed, it will in turn promote the editorial work. The foreseeability, which is important for good editorial work, comes not only from the practice of editing but from the power of editorial theory. Philosophically speaking, the theory that leaves the actual is a hollow theory, and the practice without theoretical guidance is a blind practice, which is equally applicable to editorial work.