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Confessions of a Journal Editor

Want to know what an editor is really thinking when he's reading that article you submitted?

By JEFFREY J. WILLIAMS

It's good that people can't hear me when I edit their writing. "Blah blah blah." "Is this a garbled translation from the Cyrolean?" "Did you reread your writing? I'm not your mother." "Urrrh." It wouldn't be polite.

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