baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
I've never worked for a co that wanted me to write. I've had employers that discouraged me from writing or ignored it, but never one that saw any value in it, so I hadn't realised that much of people's experience with editing is more properly conformance
That is, the argument and voice of the text doesn't matter. What matters is the language, logic, and vocabulary of that corporate world. You don't edit text to sharpen it to a point or clarify its voice, you edit it to remove all that crap