Re: cross section vs cross-sectional - what about cross sectionedandcross sectioning

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

My goal is that anything I write will be quickly and easily understood by the 
people I'm writing it for.  If I have the rare luxury of putting a dedicated 
editor into the documentation chain (the last time was about six years ago), 
that person is there because I concluded that he or she could tweak whatever I 
write to improve its chances of accomplishing that goal.  I'll most likely spend 
a little less polishing time on what I write so I have more to devote to the 
"technical" part of technical writing, and let that person bring my drafts up to 
whatever standard is needed.  I'm not writing things to make that person's job 
easier.

I have written for academic readers who would have found even slight errors in 
grammar distracting, and have instructed editors to be ruthless grammar tyrants. 
I have written for highly specialized readers, and have provided editors with 
lists of jargon that are incomprehensible to the average person-off-the-street 
but which make sense to the intended audience and should be left alone.  I have 
yet to write for readers who best understand hip-hop or Boontling, but if that 
goal ever presents itself, I'll see to it that the English language is mangled 
into whatever shape it needs to be to best reach those readers.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Lauriston" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> My goal is that anything I write for publication will sail smoothly
> across the desk of any copy editor or proofreader who might at some
> point enter the editorial chain. Their standards are considerably
> tighter than the average technical publications reader.

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