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Subject:RE: And finally, the sign-off is... From:Sanjay Srikonda <SSrikonda -at- invlink -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:02:29 -0500
A few questions:
If you agreed that you'd be the editor and reformatter why is she rewriting
it to the original state, isn't that what you agreed upon?
I'd suggest a nice conversation with her and say we agreed on this
methodology and work flow but you seem unwilling to follow through.
It's unfortunate that it's come back and forth like this but if you let this
go like this it will reflect you as well as her and is that what you'd like
people to see?
as you put it, "badly constructed sentences, inconsistent use of language,
strings of nouns all in a row, use of "it" referring back to godknowswhat...
(Well, I didn't go into all that detail, I just said that it was an
informationally-inadequate way of indicating what is wrong with my edits.)"
you don't have time to teach her how to draft an appropriate sentence and
I'd suggest that you either talk to her or your manager before agreeing to
send this out.
But, that's my .02.
sanjay
-----Original Message-----
From: Carnall, Jane [mailto:Jane -dot- Carnall -at- compaq -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 10:01 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: And finally, the sign-off is...
I've been working on a document with an SME who has been writing a lot of
the first-draft material, which is then edited and reformatted, etc, by me.
She's responsible for content, I'm responsible for process, language,
grammar, spelling, punctuation... you know, the "pretty stuff".
This is not my favourite way to work, but it's the way that has been agreed
upon for this project.
When the SME doesn't like the way I edited something, she doesn't bother
commenting: she just goes back to her original document and pastes her
version of the section or the paragraph over my edited version. I explained
to her last week - and she appeared to take it in - that this doesn't really
save her valuable time, it just means that instead of her writing her
comments she gets to come over to my desk and comment in person, since all
too often I *can't* simply leave her paragraph as is: badly constructed
sentences, inconsistent use of language, strings of nouns all in a row, use
of "it" referring back to godknowswhat... (Well, I didn't go into all that
detail, I just said that it was an informationally-inadequate way of
indicating what is wrong with my edits.)
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