Re: What to look for in a technical editor

[dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]

Michael West wrote:
> 
> > You didn't say it would lead to *frustration* for
> > writers; you said it would lead to frustrating
> > *working conditions* for writers.
> 
> > How does the *expectation* of both capabilities in a single
> > person lead to frustrating *working conditions* for writers?
> 
> If I work as a writer in an organization that
> assigns unqualified people to perform style and
> copy-editing of my work, because management
> expects it of them

You're still missing my point.

*Expectation* of both skills in a single individual leads to dissatisfaction for the employer, because they probably can't find such a person.  (They're pretty rare, in my experience.)

Since they can't find such a person, they don't hire such a person.

Since they don't hire such a person, there's no such person causing frustrating working conditions for the writers.

> 
> It seems to me to be just as unfair to accuse
> the technical expert who lacks specialist-level
> communication skills of "ignorance" as it is to
> accuse the communications expert who lacks
> specialist-level technical skills of "ignorance".

Sure, it would be just as unfair; but that's not what he said.

--David 
 
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