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Subject:Re: Re[2]: Titles vs. Duties From:Bob Morrisette <robert -dot- morrisette -at- EBAY -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:48:44 -0800
>Another difference, Kristine, is that writers usually (in high tech
>industries at least) considerably more money. Also, in all of the
>organizations that tech writer friends and I work, non even use an
>"editor" anymore. All writers edit their own stuff.
Self-editing is not real editing. I'm sure that every writer sends
work to the editor thinking it is perfect. Yet an editor almost always
something to change. If a group does not have an editor, they can at
least do peer editing. Every writing group I have worked with has
employed one or more editors. In most companies I know, editors earn
the same or more than writers.
Bob Morrisette
writer -at- sabu -dot- EBay -dot- sun -dot- com
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