ArchivesYes, yes, definitely yes. Writers are a bit like hairdressers. We just love to run our fingers through other people's text, snipping off surplus adverbs, slicing into clunky phrases and trimming up sloppy proofreading.
The piece of editorial text in question was over-long and terminally dull but I suspect the original writer was not at fault. Some editorial copy gets trailed around committees and legal teams. Each adds their own changes. The result can become little more than word soup. The copy is no longer fit for purpose.
Useful as Microsoft Word's multi-person review/tracking facility is, it doesn't think. It doesn't take a holistic approach. And it absolutely doesn't care about creative communications. So please, if you're going to mess with the text, think about giving a writer the last word - or as close to it as the legal team will allow.
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