Raging under critical eye, I am feeling
May. 18th, 2006 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm a writer. I know how to take criticism. I know how to remain professional when given an edit of my work.
However, am I experiencing unreasonable amounts of anger when one of my reviewers, upon finding a danging modifier in my document, tells me to check out a website about grammar? When I find a bug in the software, am I supposed to pull a book on C++ from the bookshelf and thrust it at the programmer?
It was a First Draft people! I was given two weeks (in addition to all the other documents I was working on) to put this together quickly just to get a feel for how it would look.
So yes, there are a few problems with the writing that would've been corrected with a grammatical edit by the other writer.
They also accused me of being too wordy. A tutorial has to do more than just give you the steps to reach a goal; it also has to point out stuff along the way so that you understand the concepts being taught to you.
But what do I know? Everyone believes they can do my job better than I can.
*gnashing teeth*
However, am I experiencing unreasonable amounts of anger when one of my reviewers, upon finding a danging modifier in my document, tells me to check out a website about grammar? When I find a bug in the software, am I supposed to pull a book on C++ from the bookshelf and thrust it at the programmer?
It was a First Draft people! I was given two weeks (in addition to all the other documents I was working on) to put this together quickly just to get a feel for how it would look.
So yes, there are a few problems with the writing that would've been corrected with a grammatical edit by the other writer.
They also accused me of being too wordy. A tutorial has to do more than just give you the steps to reach a goal; it also has to point out stuff along the way so that you understand the concepts being taught to you.
But what do I know? Everyone believes they can do my job better than I can.
*gnashing teeth*