Comments on: Now THIS is a rant… http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=332 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: rachel http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=332&cpage=1#comment-2551 rachel Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:27:34 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=332#comment-2551 There's more editing talk over at the Chronicle forums -- http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,51597.0.html There’s more editing talk over at the Chronicle forums –

http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,51597.0.html

]]> By: T Scott http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=332&cpage=1#comment-2530 T Scott Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:20:06 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=332#comment-2530 But then I would have appreciated the copy-editor who cleaned up my garbled tenses in my penultimate sentence... But then I would have appreciated the copy-editor who cleaned up my garbled tenses in my penultimate sentence…

]]> By: T Scott http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=332&cpage=1#comment-2529 T Scott Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:18:50 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=332#comment-2529 That was great. A bit over the top, but I can fully appreciate Coren's outrage. When I was editing the JMLA, I was always scrupulous about making sure that every change I suggested was seen by, and agreed to by, the author before approving it. There were still the occasional cases where what looked completely straightforward to the copyeditor (who then went ahead and made the change) deflated some particular stress or point that the author was trying to make. A good copy-editor, for example, might well consider my two uses of the word "by" above to be superfluous and changed it to, "seen, and agreed to, by". And I would have been furious at having my intentional rhetorical stresses tampered with. That was great. A bit over the top, but I can fully appreciate Coren’s outrage. When I was editing the JMLA, I was always scrupulous about making sure that every change I suggested was seen by, and agreed to by, the author before approving it. There were still the occasional cases where what looked completely straightforward to the copyeditor (who then went ahead and made the change) deflated some particular stress or point that the author was trying to make. A good copy-editor, for example, might well consider my two uses of the word “by” above to be superfluous and changed it to, “seen, and agreed to, by”. And I would have been furious at having my intentional rhetorical stresses tampered with.

]]> By: Joel http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=332&cpage=1#comment-2528 Joel Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:12:24 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=332#comment-2528 And the sub-editors' response: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/29/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing And the sub-editors’ response:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/29/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing

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