Re: What to look for in a technical editor

Subject: Re: What to look for in a technical editor
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 19:00:25 -0400




Bill Swallow wrote:

An extreme grammatical mistake might

cause an outburst of laughter.


Bill,

The danger is that an extreme grammatical mistake (or just a common and minor mistake like a misplaced comma) can lead to ambiguity, misinterpretation, and user error that can result in anything from frustration at one end to the death of hundreds of passengers or the meltdown of a nuclear reactor at the other end. This isn't a matter of nitpicking, it's a matter of clear communication, which is something both writers and editors should care about, it seems to me.


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