His/Her v. Their

Subject: His/Her v. Their
From: Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: tech2wr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:08:56 -0700 (PDT)

Some documents I'm editing of necessity give procedures in third person rather than the assumed (you) second person. There's no way around this.
 
In the document I'm editing, they use His/Her. My inclination is to use "their" - comments?

Regards,


Becca
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