In my experience in both the commercial and scholarly worlds, English majors with no actual job experience make the worst editors because they are pretentious. They either want to impose stylistic affectations or arbitrary rules.
I once read a similar complaint from a laboratory director, that he never hired science students for detail work because they spent too much time musing about the theoretical implications.
--emerod
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Posted by Anonymous to academicsecret at 10/10/2006 02:06:06 PM
