I'm giving the student editor a grammar lesson in responding to the edit. Or should I say: "A grammar lesson has been given by me to the student editor"?
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They really shouldn't be doing stylistic edits anyway, but what do I know?
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Light above-the-line edits are the best way to go. It is more appropriate and has an bonus of less work for everyone!
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Of course, Twitter allows no edits at all so "an bonus" is just going to have to stay there I guess.
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That is really bad. I once had a student editor tell me I should replace "rule" with "tenant" everywhere in the article.
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Tenant? Or tenet?
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Who?
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Why would you ever write "the court has rejected" when you could simply say "the court rejected"? Sounds like your likely unpaid student editor was J-school or English major and knows what's up. Most of the brilliant scholars I edited in law school were terrible writers.
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If he or she really removed meaning, just mention it privately instead of pummeling them publically. I guarantee they are reading this and probably worship you.
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I once had to gather books in French from freaking Africa then get a foreign language prof to help translate to subcite a LR article. This kid likely poured their heart into those edits for you. I'm sorry, but this struck a nerve. If "has" was necessary, I'll take my comeuppance.
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But this person is grammar-splaining a mistaken understanding of passive voice. The attempt to explain makes the edit worse because the stated reason is wrong.
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How about because it, at least in the example given, is shit writing and that it is shitty to sub-tweet/trash an unpaid student editor on Twitter?
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I can see a place for “has rejected” in an academic work analyzing a doctrine as it stands now, as a product of decisions built up over time. It’s not newspaper writing.
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This is why nice things haven’t been given to us.
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it really sucks how the young people doing unpaid labor for you aren't to your liking– hope you compensated anyone who helped with your rehab of one of the most flat out evil men in recent american history
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Seems to me that if your publishing system involves student editors you have to expect to spend some time teaching the editors. In my field the system involves adversarial academics who stab folks in the back or delay articles till theirs comes out, so IDK.
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I never did those sorts of edits as an editor unless they were blatantly wrong. Why would it be our business how much passive voice the author uses (putting aside for the moment that the example isn’t passive)
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