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Subject:RE: Writers job description/definition From:"Sarah L Blake" <sarah -dot- blake -at- exony -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:50:41 -0000
All the other issues with this person aside; if you can't replace him,
and you can't make him actually write, why don't you at least use him to
proofread and copyedit your work?
It's obviously what he prefers, and it's better to have someone else
proof what you've written anyway.
S.
> And he proofreads again and again. Of course this is very nice
>but
> he never meets the deadlines. I don't have the time to proofread what
I
>do,
> partially because most of what he does not do falls back on me.
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