OT - Who should be responsible for proofing?

[John Sgammato]

I am a lone writer, so I am ultimately responsible for the docs. I have no editor, proofreader, or any suport whatever. I try to get someone from QA to go over everything, but that seldom happens. Even when it does, I go over it myself. 
 
The problem is that a non-writer can get quite exhausted and careless or resentful looking at every character, while a trained writer can skim a lot and focus on the places most likely to have problems.  When you are responsible for 14 books and 6 online helps and a bunch of small end-user documents and other auxiliary docs, it really is quicker for the writer to do it, if s/he can develop the discipline. 
 
 

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From: framers-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata.com at lists.frameusers.com on behalf of Natalie Bircher
Sent: Fri 12/15/2006 2:29 PM
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Subject: OT - Who should be responsible for proofing?



This is off topic, but something that we all must come across as
writers. Who should be responsible for the final proofing of the
documents you write? Should it ever be the writer?







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