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Subject:Re: Learning to edit yourself From:Marguerite Krupp <Marguerite_Krupp -at- BAYNETWORKS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:18:09 -0400
Faced with a dearth of editors, one writer I know distributed copies of a
draft document and offered small prizes for the reviewer who found the most
errors, the worst (most verbose, most convoluted, most unclear) piece of
writing, and who offered the most helpful comments. He found that reviewers
responded well. Or maybe it was the beer and chocolate prizes. It fostered
a little competition, and it let people know that tech writers aren't all
like Tina in Dilbert.
