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Subject:Re: Review Procedure for Documents & online Help From:"Sandy Harris" <sharris -at- dkl -dot- com> To:Iain Harrison <iain -at- hairydog -dot- co -dot- uk> Date:Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:33:21 -0500
Iain Harrison wrote:
> As for getting it reviewed for style, consistency and stuff, only peer
> review with other authors seems to work. As the only author where I
> last worked, that was problematic!
A while back I sent my boss on one contract email which included this
text:
|Suggestion 1:
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|Budget & schedule for a professional technical editor, likely on a
|short-term contract basis, to go over my stuff, long enough before
|the product release that I can make the changes.
|
|Your comments and the technical review are useful and necessary,
|but they cannot substitute for professional editing.
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