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Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Date of this Version

2011

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Article

Citation

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing, Volume 32: 2011 ISSN 0196-7134

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© 2011 The Association for Documentary Editing. Used by permission.

Abstract

Graduates of the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents deserve congratulations, not only because they have learned a great deal but also because being a documentary editor is the best job in the world. I can speak of this with some authority. Although I am a 1981 graduate of the Institute, I officially became a documentary editor only after retiring from university teaching, which was my second career. My first was as a university press and textbook editor. Those were all good jobs, but documentary editing is the best. Here is why.

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