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Subject:Re: When do "editors" get credit? From:Rahel Bailie <rbailie -at- CASTLETON -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:13:11 -0700
Rowena said:
< In these situations I think that my role needs
to be redefined as "author" rather than "editor," but it's some-
times difficult to get buy-in from developers who think that it is
not advantageous to list a technical writer as a primary or even
secondary author. There seems to be an unwritten rule that
the developer always gets listed as primary author, even if they
only added two sentences to a 1500-word article.
What are your thoughts on the subject?>
I generally defer to the technical person, thinking that without me,
they'd have a poorly-written document, but without them, there would be
no document at all.
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