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Subject:RE: How to deal with incorrect editing From:"Char James-Tanny" <CharJT -at- helpstuff -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:12:09 -0500
One common problem I run into a lot is that my nicely worded active voice is
changed to passive...
Perhaps we could get an example of what kind of change was made? "This is
what I wrote: [a]; here are my boss's edits: [b]." Right now, I feel like we
don't actually know what kind of change was actually made and we're all
making as assortment of suggestions that may or may not apply.
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