RE: Online vs paper-based editing?

["Ben" <baj357 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Jeannine Klein wrote:
<<My own experience in the corporate world is weighted in favor of  
<<online editing, although not so heavily. The disparity was difficult  
<<to handle this past semester; I'd like to resolve it, if only through  
<<anecdotal evidence from this group. Of course, published research  
<<would be even better.

Geoff Hart replied:
<<If you'd like some more detailed statistics, join the copyediting-l  
<<discussion group (http://www.copyediting-l.info/) and ask your  
<<question there. It's a smaller group than techwr-l (and there's some  
<<overlap), but the proportion of editors is much higher than on techwr- 
<<l. And I spend even more time there than I do here on techwr-l (the  
<<horror! the horror!). <g> In fact, go to <http://surveymonkey.com/>  
<<or any of several similar places on the Web that offer free surveys,  
<<create a survey, advertise it here and there, and collect your own  
<<statistics! Then you've got firsthand data on the relative  
<<proportions of the two types of editing.

I'd be very interested in the results of this survey.

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