Title : 
Confessions of a reluctant consultant
         
        
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
3/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The professional life of a writing/editing consultant is described and compared with that of a regularly employed counterpart. The author suggests ways to cope with both overload and dry spells and to compute the value of one´s time
         
        
            Keywords : 
consultancies; technical presentation; professional life; writing/editing consultant; Business communication; Cities and towns; Civil engineering; Communication industry; Companies; Physics; Proposals; Resumes; US Government; Writing;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on