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✍ Charles H. Shaw 📂 Article 📅 1991 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 141 KB

Multi-author texts present a number of problems for editors and readers. The editor, in preparing the book needs to maintain even quality and adequate crossreferencing, and to ensure that all chapters are produced to the deadline. This latter problem ends up penalising the more conscientious writers