How to Edit Technical Documents: Workbook
.,."the best feature of How to Edit Technical Documents is that it makes you think about neglected aspects of the editor's work....Their concept of the editor's job goes beyond the copyediting level to something that can reasonably be called technical editing rather than simply the copyediting of technical documents....Perhaps the best chapter is on triage (i.e. editing manuscripts under deadline pressure), where the first task is "to read the copy and see if it makes sense," rather than to first attack issues like consistency of capitilization....As someone who came to editing from the science/engineering (rather than the language) side of the desk, I heartily agree with this approach. The authors also provide in this chapter a useful real-world example of a triage edit, which focuses on the organization of the document to make it at least understandable (if not well-edited in the traditional sense)."-IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.