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Subject:Re: What to look for in a technical editor From:Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 20 May 2003 10:27:49 -0700 (PDT)
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Chris wrote:
Also, I have *never* worked with an editor who insisted on a structure
or passage that I could demonstrate was technically inaccurate. And I
have worked with at least one of the editors who has responded to this
thread.
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Me neither. But it's not the fact that an editor will insist on a structure or passage that you/I/anyone could demonstrate was technically inaccurate. It's more a problem of having to go back through your document and undo the changes an editor makes if those changes are technically inaccurate. In some cases, this can take a lot of time if the changes are subtle enough but still affect accuracy. In the very least it's a waste of the writer's time and the worst, it's a waste of the company's money. And before you say "Use track changes," it's still still an unpleasant experience that could be avoided.
That's what bothers me at least as a writer.
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