Re: Do you use your editors? was RE: wording for training materials

Subject: Re: Do you use your editors? was RE: wording for training materials
From: Jeff Hanvey <jeff -at- jewahe -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:35:30 -0700 (PDT)


--- Shea Michael EXT <Michael -dot- Shea -dot- extern -at- icn -dot- siemens -dot- de> wrote:
>Do you (the reader) use your editors (when you have them)? That is to say, do you find them generally useful or do you prefer to do your own editing? Do you see them as colleagues or as a nuissance?

I love to act as an editor and to have someone editing my work. I think the relationship serves to improve consistency and overall quality, especially if it isn't a rigid, you-must-do-it-my-way relationship.

>I bet there is an editor list out there with a monthly discussion of: the writers are ignoring my edits. What do I do? Kind of like us trying to get information out of reluctant engineers.

Yep, copyediting-l (I don't have the URL, but I'm sure it's available from raycomm.com)

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