There was no need to draft editorials and spread petitions while studying for AP exams.
Several members of the PRG joined an editorial panel that took responsibility for drafting editorial guidelines and monitoring content.
At the Observer, David Astor independently worked out what must have happened and asked Dingle Foot, a barrister and former Liberal MP, to draft an editorial excoriating Eden.
On the tenth anniversary of the publication of the draft, an editorial in Nature noted that its promise is "still to be fulfilled" (Best is yet to come, 2011).
JW wrote the draft with editorial input from all authors.
It was while drafting an editorial on the timely subject of publishing ethics that it first came to light that Biology Open (BiO) was one of the journals that received as a submission a spoof article devised by a journalist working for the journal Science (Bohannon, 2013).
They said the church also never asked to see an article before it was printed, though former editors said the practice had been to fax drafts of editorials to church headquarters.
The first draft of this editorial was written by a colleague, who sent me the draft for revision on Feb. 7. I made some major revisions and the final version that appeared in the paper was basically this revised one.
Thanks to Jill Becker, Sarah Berga, Carolyn Brown, Geert De Vries, Anne Etgen, Virginia Miller, and Viviana Simon, who made numerous suggestions that improved a draft of this editorial.
However, the intended article about the editorial drafting process didn't run for some reason, which is the only regret in our entire plan.
Electronically produced drafts, correspondence and editorial comments, sweated over by contemporary poets, novelists and nonfiction authors, are ultimately just a series of digits 0's and 1's written on floppy disks, CDs and hard drives, all of which degrade much faster than old-fashioned acid-free paper.
