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I take it that this was your first magazine article.
Periodicals are put together at a blinding pace, with all articles
rudely edited and then savagely chopped to fit the space available.
I prefer to think of magazine editors as highly skilled surgeons
who use axes instead of scalpels. The results aren't great, but
they're pretty good, considering the constraints.
I have never yet had an article appear in undamaged form in a
magazine. Nor have I ever seen a trade publication or newspaper
run a story on a product I was intimitely familiar with without
introducing serious factual errors (unless they decided to run a
press release verbatim).
Periodicals are a messy, shoot-from-the-hip business, and if they
only made you look half a fool, you're doing as well as can be
expected.
-- Robert
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Robert Plamondon, High-Tech Technical Writing, Inc.
36475 Norton Creek Road * Blodgett * Oregon * 97326
robert -at- plamondon -dot- com * (541) 453-5841 * Fax: (541) 453-4139 http://www.pioneer.net/~robertp
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