RE: What to look for in a technical editor

Subject: RE: What to look for in a technical editor
From: "Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 10:05:50 -0400


But, Bill, there's a logical lacuna in your argument that is big enough to drive a hummer through. If it is correctly written technical information, then there is no grammatical goof for the editor to screw up by fixing it.

"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> wrote:

>Exactly. No, you're not missing something. In cases where you are writing
>for an extremely technical audience, they will more than not read right over
>the grammatical goof and absorb the correctly-written technical information.
>
>Bill Swallow
>wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com
>
>
>::: -----Original Message-----
>::: An editor encounters an ungrammatical and therefore ambiguous and
>::: therefore logically meaningless string of words (not technically a
>::: sentence). The editor moves a comma, rendering the string
>::: of words into
>::: a well-formed sentence that has an unambigous meaning.
>::: This, somehow,
>::: causes text that was formerly technically correct to become
>::: technically
>::: incorrect. Therefore, Bill and you conclude, the reader is
>::: better served
>::: by the unedited text.
>:::
>::: Am I missing something?
>
>

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