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Subject:Re: When do "editors" get credit? From:John David Hickey <jdavid -at- FARABI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:28:31 -0400
Greetings Rowena!
> up writing half of it. In these situations I think that my role needs
> to be redefined as "author" rather than "editor," but it's some-
> times difficult to get buy-in from developers who think that it is
> not advantageous to list a technical writer as a primary or even
> secondary author. There seems to be an unwritten rule that
> the developer always gets listed as primary author, even if they
> only added two sentences to a 1500-word article.
That doesn't sound right, but how about a compromise? The byline could read
as:
What's the point of having a technically accurate document if the English is
so bad that no one can understand it? You made the information more
accessible, you deserve credit!
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Be seeing you,
