Re: How do... YOU... do... "IT"?
- From: David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:05:56 -0800
In article <11orc8ebik9v6bc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Patricia C. Wrede" <pwrede6492@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, maybe; his terminology is odd enough that he might be calling the
> final revisions pass "adjustments for presentation" I suppose. But the
> final polish isn't a matter of *presentation*, to my way of thinking --
> presentation is just how something *looks*, not how it's put together, and
> changing those last few words and phrases and fixing typos isn't about what
> the ms. *looks* like.
If you think of the real thing as the underlying ideas and the words as
just the current representation, it might make sense to think of any
changes in wording that don't change the ideas as a matter of
presentation, not content.
That point of view makes sense to me for non-fiction, less sense for
fiction, still less for poetry.
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