RE: Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your text ... GEEZ!

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

I thought everyone might be interest to know how I handled this and how
it turned out. I tried to revise the test to use the best parts of what
he gave me and what I had already. Then I sent it to him with the email
below -- which I've snipped a little to remove some material that might
be considered proprietary. He ended up approving the revision with no
further changes. I can't say we all lived happily ever after, because
this is the real world, but this particular incident turned out well.

Here's the email I sent him. Not the one rather interesting
slepp-checker blooper where I picked the wrong word from the list of
corrections. The word I wanted was "verbatim." I'm wondering if he took
any weird alternative meaning from what I actually said.

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  Here's what I cam up with as the revised text for the [snip] Table.
This is a kind of hybrid of what you sent me and what was there. Your
text included some I important points I missed, such as [snip]. However,
I couldn't use it verboten because it wasn't in line with our department
style. Furthermore, I thought some points were better placed in an
introductory section, rather than in the discussion of the fields. I
also felt that in some places where you referred to the [snip] code, the
reference should really be to the table entry, since we're talking about
the actually [snip] data, not just the code. I also had some passages I
really want to keep from my original. This has created some redundancy,
but I figured it would ultimately be up to our editor how to resolve
this.

            Please let me know how this works for you.

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