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Re: Can someone learn to be detail-oriented?

Subject: Re: Can someone learn to be detail-oriented?
From: Dan Roberts <DRoberts -at- ISOGON -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:44:42 -0400

Title: RE: Can someone learn to be detail-oriented?

I'd also wonder which details are the focus here? Consistent use of terminology? consistent use of voice, style, and diction? Consistent use of periods at the end of list items? I once had an editor who insisted on using some incredibly convoluted rules for list item periods, but was perfectly happy to let passive voice run rampant through the doc, whereas I was more concerned about structure, clarity, voice and word use, and couldn't care less about the convoluted list rules (esp since the client changed the rules on a weekly basis, it seemed).

So, you might want to take a look at what details the new writer manages well, and which s/he doesn't. Also, you might want to discover the writer's strengths - perhaps the lack of detail-orientation indicates an imaginative mind, that easily receives, digests, and presents information?

Or, perhaps you might want to consider using your strengths to cover the other writer's weakness (esp while getting them to be more detail oriented), and using his/her strengths to work for you.

just some thoughts.

Dan Roberts
droberts -at- isogon -dot- com



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