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Re: Retaining author's voice, was How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow
Subject:Re: Retaining author's voice, was How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow From:Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM> To:Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:36:24 +1000
Sandra Carden, Carden Works, LLC wrote:
>
> I'm a technical editor (not a writer) of long documents written by
> civil, mechanical, and structural engineers, and while the authors may
> not be concerned about it, I do work to retain the author's voice in
> each report. I have the idea that it's one of the things about my work
> that they appreciate, even if they don't specifically identify it.
>
One of the best compliments I ever got on my
editing was years ago when I worked for an academic
publisher. Most of our authors were primarily
academics rather than writers. I'd worked hard
turning a very tedious and messy journal submission
into a decent read. When the author called me back
with a few small corrections to the galley proofs,
he said cheerfully "Wow, now that I see it typeset,
this really reads much better" !!!
At first I was annoyed that all my hard work was
being ignored but then I realized that it was a
compliment if the author himself couldn't tell
where my edits were.
-- Janice
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