This is for all you editors....

Subject: This is for all you editors....
From: "Al Geist" <al -at- geistarts -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 19:01:28 -0400

In reading this story, I felt the pain of every editor/copy editor I've ever
known. Often the "lone writer," I've cringed many times months after I've
published something only to find out that I made a glaring, but consistent
error throughout a 300 page User Guide.



http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/01/opinion/perlman-romney-needs-editor/index.html
?hpt=hp_t3





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