Arts and science: the editor's challenge; editors and writers who deal with the arts and sciences face a special task: the need for accuracy and clarity is just the beginning.

From: Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management | Date: July 1, 1988| Author: Jacobi, Peter P. | Copyright information

Arts and science: The editor's challenge

Editors must take special care when they prepare copy for readers with special tasks, special expectations, special knowledge.

Editors must take special care of readers seeking economic information or academic insights, legal or technical material, information about the arts and sciences.

They must be wary of writing that turns turgid, of prose that colors purple, of ideas that aren't focused toward the magazi...

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