Following a discussion on LinkedIn, copywriter and editor Ragini Werner mentioned one of my articles, on her blog: http://needser.blogspot.com/2009/06/cross-word.html.

The article, “Benchmarks for Estimating Editing Speed,” presents an admittedly unscientific survey of some leading editors’ rules of thumb. It was published in Corrigo, the newsletter of the technical editing SIG of the Society for Technical Communication. (Let’s call it the STC TE SIG!) I’m gathering new data from editors (contact me with your benchmarks).

Ragini, founder of NEEDSer, is a native-English copywriter and editor who specializes in helping Dutch writers banish Dunglish (English with a Dutch accent) from their writing. Her blog, The Bashful Blagger, is a lively read, full of honest and humorous details about the wordsmith’s life, mixed with some videos and references that extend the conversation.