RE: What to look for in a technical editor

Subject: RE: What to look for in a technical editor
From: "Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 09:22:45 -0400


Exactly. No, you're not missing something. In cases where you are writing
for an extremely technical audience, they will more than not read right over
the grammatical goof and absorb the correctly-written technical information.

Bill Swallow
wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com


::: -----Original Message-----
::: An editor encounters an ungrammatical and therefore ambiguous and
::: therefore logically meaningless string of words (not technically a
::: sentence). The editor moves a comma, rendering the string
::: of words into
::: a well-formed sentence that has an unambigous meaning.
::: This, somehow,
::: causes text that was formerly technically correct to become
::: technically
::: incorrect. Therefore, Bill and you conclude, the reader is
::: better served
::: by the unedited text.
:::
::: Am I missing something?



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Re: What to look for in a technical editor: From: Dick Margulis

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