RE: Formatting Docs On-The-Fly

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

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> .com] On Behalf Of Al Geist
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> I agree with Bonnie up to a point...many organizations cannot 
> afford an 
> editor.  However, this does not mean that the writer should 
> not set high 
> personal standards, unless they want to get a reputation for being a 
> hack writer.  In all my years of writing, I have never, nor would I 
> ever, allow someone to get "wiggle room" by ignoring the company 
> standards.  Our customers deserve better and they are the 
> ones that pay 
> our mortgages, car payments, etc.  This is not to say that company 
> standards are totally inflexible, because there are always 
> extenuating 
> circumstances.  A good editor will catch any "wiggling" to cover 
> slopping writing and a lone writer would not do it in the first place.
>  

Absolutely -- the lone writer is at a disadvantage, just as *I* am when I am
both technical writer and technical editor as a freelancer. I certainly know
that lone writers do the best they can, and I didn't mean to imply anything
negative about those who currently do both jobs. It *can* be done, but it's
much harder, and there is no guarantee that both jobs are done as well as
they would be otherwise.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


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