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Have you ever wondered just when in a project an editor should be included?
How long will it take the editor? And just what is a "lexical" edit vs. a
"substantive" edit? Come learn the answers to these questions, and much more
about the editing process, how to choose an editor, how to create your own
editing checklists, and any other questions you'd like to ask. After this
presentation you'll better understand how to work with an editor and why
it's so important to not let constraints such as scheduling and budget
interfere with this essential part of creating documentation.
Hastings Hart
Hastings Hart decided in high school that he wanted to be the Moscow bureau
chief of The New York Times, and during college he got to intern as a newspaper
reporter one summer. The next summer he had to settle for an internship as a
copyeditor, and he found his passion. Many crucial aspects of the rise of the
oligarchs and the derailment of Russian democracy went unreported in the Times
because Hastings was too busy trying to get Americans to stop dangling their
modifiers. Over the years, Hastings wrote many technical manuals, and then his
hobby of computer programming led to his current focus on technical editing. He
now works from home mostly editing books on programming and software.
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