Re: Altering of articles
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Montford Switzer <ZOE@...>
Mike and others,
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My read on the alteration of articles is much the same as Mike's: MR usually edits to fit the theme they are sending to their readership and often times in doing so make my work look better than the original submission. MM edits very little, but cleans up a little grammar here and there sometime at the expense of some technical terms that don't fit the spell checker. RMJ uses them as submitted. RMC, it has been a while, but they seem to edit usually finding a way to say something more efficiently. To the best of my recollection any changes are submitted to the author for final approval prior to publication. This works well for all concerned and eliminates many (but not all) embarrassing errors. Mont Switzer -----Original Message-----
From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of Mike Brock Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:06 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] Altering of articles Before the thread on magazines is terminated...which will occur soon...I think I'll apply the model evaluation concept to magazine evaluation. As all of you know...because I KNOW you read and memorize the rules...it is a character of the STMFC to be able to complement or criticize the quality of a model free from criticism. So...speaking only of myself, I can say that the article I wrote on my efforts to model parts of Sherman Hill and which was published fairly shortly later in March 2002, was not altered at all except that one small paragraph was not included. This paragraph contained a thank you to several people who helped me and to the many photographers who spent money and effort to record the period we all seem to love. The point is...my writing was not altered at all [ wonder what that means?<G> ]. Only the lead paragraph in my article in MR Planning was altered in MR Planning 2002 and I have to say that, in both cases, the final work was sent to me for approval. This was prior to the current editorial makeup of MR...although I think the MR Planning article was just after. Regarding the magazine Trains, I have to say that I was startled about 2 yrs ago to see an article on N&W steam on the Blue Ridge grade. The startling aspect was that the magazine freely admitted that the article was submitted 20 yrs prior and the author had long since passed on...if I recall correctly. I have to be fair and further note that a rebutal that I researched and wrote to Trains [ as a letter ] regarding several outrageous [ I'm trying to be nice ] assertions by King in Trains Classics Steam Glory was not printed. In fairness, it was too long...but, geeez...it took that long to straighten the poor guy out. I finally sent it to the Steam Loco Group. Articles I've written for RMJ and MM were not altered at all. Mike Brock Yahoo! Groups Links |
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