Re: technical editor information requested

Subject: Re: technical editor information requested
From: "Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:07:04 -0700

>Hamilton, Susan[SMTP:shamilton -at- METASOLV -dot- COM] writes:
>>>For a while we were looking at hiring an editor for our group.
>Everyone I interviewed had samples of end things they said they had
>edited. However, I would really have liked to see a sample of the
>original, marked-up document and the corresponding pages from the
>final document. To me, that is the best way to see how someone edits,
>including such things as their style of markup and how much
developmental editing vs. copyediting they did.<<

I've heard that some places give applicants an editing test.

Bev Parks
>parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
>
>

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