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On your business trip to Munich, you have three documents to edit: a report, a proposal, and a journal article. The authors of these documents vary widely in both writing skills and disposition. Daulton, the author of the report, is the most willing to accept suggestions — and with good reason. His writing is the least polished. Although he places his ideas in a logical order, he fails to make connections between those ideas. Sentences next to one another often do not relate to each other.
People ask you for criticism, but they want only praise.
Somerset Maugham
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Alley, M. (2000). Reducing the Friction of Editing. In: The Craft of Editing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1204-1_5
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