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Subject:Re: 'author' as a verb From:Joanna Sheldon <cjs10 -at- CORNELL -dot- EDU> Date:Sat, 11 Mar 1995 22:19:17 -0500
>BTW, I don't mean to say that "writers" haven't always had to structure
>documents and libraries. We have, but that part of the work is hidden when we
>say that we "'wrote' an acquisitions procedure manual".
Hmmm... I don't get it. What is it about the abominable word "to author"
that makes the process of structuring a document, etc., any more evident
than it is in "to write"?
