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On Editing And Being Edited

Posted at 9:01PM Wednesday 30 Jan 2013

Two recent pieces on editing and editors provide some food for thought for those (like me, and probably anyone currently being edited) who are constantly thinking about the role, duties, responsibilities, sins, virtues, and other attendant qualities of editors, and this whole activity of taking something that someone else has written and making changes to it.

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