Angels and Copy Editors Defend Us!
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Fothergill-Brown, Ann
Writer's Block
1999

Abstract:

Tinkering with the author's words simply because 'I would not write them that way' is not discretion, but interference. Preserving the author's authentic voice is as important as enhancing its presentation so as to maintain the authority of the words. Of what, then, does the enhancing consist? And how does editorial discretion fit in?