RE: what to look for in a Tech Editor

Subject: RE: what to look for in a Tech Editor
From: Watson Laughton <WLaughton -at- orphan -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:46:57 -0500



>>Or do you mean that a good editor ought to be aware that there are many
systems of
>>English grammar

You mean like Ebonics, and the grammar that results from Whole Language
teaching curricula?


>>also to combat those who learned, in school, ridiculous Latin-based rules
like
>>"never split an infinitive" and still try to foist them on the rest of us.

Weeelll, there's something to be said for knowing the rules before you break
them.

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