Have you done a technical book review?

Seth Cohn sethcohn at gnuhampshire.org
Tue Nov 19 11:44:24 EST 2013


I did tech review for "Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers", and it
was an ok experience.

If you are doing editing of English, then the actual Editor isn't
doing their job.  You should be only doing tech review, not grammar,
etc.

Seth


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
<greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> I was asked by Packt publishing to do a technical book review (Apache SOLR
> for Beginners)
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else on the list has been a technical reviewer
> before and would share your experience.
>
> I was initially excited about the opportunity but it's become apparent, at
> least in this case, that the quality is not all there.  The author is
> Italian, and I'm re-writing the book in proper English rather than making
> quality/style assessments.  I believe the job of a technical reviewer is to
> confirm accuracy in the specifics and concepts to ensure that the author's
> message is delivered effectively to the reader.
>
> I like Packt for their emphasis on Open Source, but I'm at the point where I
> have to decide if this project is worthwhile.  To help in that decision, I'm
> interested to know firsthand how other authors and contributors worked
> through the publication process.
>
> Best,
>
> Greg Rundlett
>
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