Post by ripslider on Jun 10, 2009 12:56:01 GMT
David,
I'm fairly new to this hobby, but am am a regular purchaser of Model Engineer and MEW. At this stage, MEW is of more practical use to me, but both magazines get 3 or 4 full readings and for virtually everything I find their content, writing style and quality excellent - and certainly far and away beyond the competing journal at my local W H Smiths.
I do have one small request though - or at least a plead - and that is I wonder if you could be slightly stricter with the big red pen when it comes to editing "Keiths Column"
The content of the column is generally good - when I understand it - but it takes me usually 2 and sometimes 3 complete reads through before I actually understand what is being said. There is some degree of rambling around the subject and Mr Wilson does tend to veer off a subject and then dive back on to it with no warning.
This is in contrast to all the other content in the magazine which is very well editted and laid out indeed.
I know that this is the pot calling the kettle black as my spelling and grammer etc is horrific, but I wonder if you could ask Mr Wilson to break out his writing into seperate para's a little more for seperate subjects, and maybe yourself or a sub-editor could have a juggle of the words a little so that they flow a little more and dullards like me can make complete sense of the article on the first read?
My apologies for being a moaner.
Steve
I'm fairly new to this hobby, but am am a regular purchaser of Model Engineer and MEW. At this stage, MEW is of more practical use to me, but both magazines get 3 or 4 full readings and for virtually everything I find their content, writing style and quality excellent - and certainly far and away beyond the competing journal at my local W H Smiths.
I do have one small request though - or at least a plead - and that is I wonder if you could be slightly stricter with the big red pen when it comes to editing "Keiths Column"
The content of the column is generally good - when I understand it - but it takes me usually 2 and sometimes 3 complete reads through before I actually understand what is being said. There is some degree of rambling around the subject and Mr Wilson does tend to veer off a subject and then dive back on to it with no warning.
This is in contrast to all the other content in the magazine which is very well editted and laid out indeed.
I know that this is the pot calling the kettle black as my spelling and grammer etc is horrific, but I wonder if you could ask Mr Wilson to break out his writing into seperate para's a little more for seperate subjects, and maybe yourself or a sub-editor could have a juggle of the words a little so that they flow a little more and dullards like me can make complete sense of the article on the first read?
My apologies for being a moaner.
Steve
