Re: Editors -Reply

[Stacey Marner <marners -at- CORSAIR -dot- MANTECH-WVA -dot- COM>]

     I will save messages and I'll post them once the topic starts to die
     down.

     The audience varies but for the most part, it's executives who have
     just a little more technical knowledge than I do.  I have bought many,
     many reference books, including Webster's 10th.  I would like to find
     some good technical dictionaries.  I bought the _Wired style guide
     which is interesting but I think too progressive for us to adopt here.
     What are some good ones?

     I understand that a piece of writing should be edited various times
     but that's just not reality here.  Writer's have deadlines and when
     time runs low, they choose to spend it on additional content rather
     than perfecting what they have.  I'm not sure I can affect that one.

     I do think some of this needs to come from management.  Although they
     are very supportive and understand the importance of editing, they're
     not very proactive in promoting me.  I'm not sure how much of that I'm
     willing to do myself.  Because of the impressions of past editors, I
     try to be as friendly, helpful and non-threatening as possible.  There
     are teams here but I can't seem to figure when the writing assignments
     are decided.  Even if I did, I'm not sure I could just invite myself
     to the meetings.

     I have written a style guide and we tried a workshop and although it
     was a great discussion, there were not many people there.  I would
     love to do more of these but I'm not sure I'm willing to unless I get
     more managerial support.

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Subject: Editors -Reply
Author:  Bill Sullivan <bsullivan -at- smtplink -dot- deltecpower -dot- com> at Internet
Date:    1/16/97 12:31 PM


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