Re: EDITOR'S ROLE

Subject: Re: EDITOR'S ROLE
From: Steven Brown <stevenabrown -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 06:35:27 -0800 (PST)


Anna,

Others will provide more substantive suggestions, but
I'd like to offer one observation about editing based
on personal experience.

Clearly, it's important that an editor bring
grammatical correctness, consistent style and usage,
and clarity to technical documentation, but beware of
the urge to edit just for the sake of editing. There's
a point where ongoing edits fail to sustantially
improve an author's writing, only making it different.
Unless you have bad writers in your department who
need a great deal of one-on-one coaching, you'd be
wise to use only one or two editing passes. Anything
more, generally, is overkill.

Steven Brown
Technical Writer


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