[lbo-talk] Proofing (was CounterPunch 8/25/07:"The Great Financial Crisis: Who's got a turd in his briefcase" by JamesPetras )

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Aug 26 12:26:46 PDT 2007


Stephen Philion wrote:
>
> CJ wrote:
> I believe one person does all the editing and mark-up. The pieces
> usually exceed the proofing standard of, say, posts on LBO. --CGE
>
> --well, yeah, but shouldn't they anyhow? That they exceed post to LBO
> isn't saying much given the difference in formats, postings versus
> actual articles in a web-zine.

I'm a pretty damn good editor -- and I don't make very many typing mistakes. And yet I'm not sure I've ever produced a document of over a page or two that didn't have some errors. In a 185-word letter to the editor I wrote the other day "a" appears as "as" at one point. If you read through reviews in scholarly journals you will constantly come across reviews pointing out bloopers in some book published by a respectable university press. It happens, and shouldn't occasion too much gnashing of teeth.

Carrol



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