Substantive editing sample 69:
Handling a diskette

Nonnative writers of English sometimes produce strange (and often humorous) malaprops. A substantive editor needs to work over such text very carefully to turn it into standard English. This text will benefit as well from a more logical arrangement of the bullets.

Note: The author of this piece was not a native English speaker. He very much appreciated the heavy commentary that explained my thinking behind the many suggested revisions. The highlighted comments elucidated for him many of the subtle peculiarities of American English.

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