RE: Formatting Docs On-The-Fly

Subject: RE: Formatting Docs On-The-Fly
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:36:41 -0500



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> .com] On Behalf Of Al Geist
>
> 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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