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eowyntheavenger · 4 months ago

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The editors at my job are TERRIBLE. I spend so much time writing my papers, fact-checking them, putting sources in them, proofreading them, editing them... and then what to the editors do? They go in and rewrite sentences and COMPLETELY CHANGE THE MEANING. Like not even in a way where they could conceivably have misunderstood. They just change things to be blatantly, OBVIOUSLY wrong. And then they cut the most important historical context that I've put in there like it's unimportant. The worst part is, I know it doesn't have to be like this. When I send my articles to external publications, it's completely different: they do a very light copy-edit and then post my papers virtually as-is. They don't rewrite them, and they certainly don't rewrite them WRONG.

#hate hate hate #sometimes our editors literally put spelling and grammar mistakes INTO my papers #and I have to be the one to proofread THEM #editors are supposed to catch errors... not create more fucking errors #also not to brag but I have been working in my field for seven years and I'm known for being an excellent writer... so the fact that #I'm getting edited to death every time I submit a paper is a BIG problem #I send a paper I've written to my coworkers and supervisors and they're like wow yes this is flawless #I send my paper to the editors and they're like yeah lemme rewrite that for you but worse #I'm sick of this shit #personal

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