Re: Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your text ... GEEZ!

["John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

This isn't a competition. The SME knows the subject better than you
(or you would be the SME and you wouldn't have sent it o him for
review). You can either make sure than what you have complies
factually with what he wrote or you can take whatr he wrote and modify
it for style.

Then thank him for his work and ask for some more

> - Grateful to him for trying to be helpful.
yes


> - Angry with him for not keeping his place and trying to usurp my role.
> Hey, I'M the writer.
grow up

> - Insulted, because he's decided I can't write. Rather than telling me
> the passage heeds further clarification, he's thrown up his hands and
> just said, "Looks like I need to write this for him."
grow up

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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
NYMetro STC President

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