Author: Yoel Strimling

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Of Interest: Presentations at STC Summit 2021

STC’s Technical Communication Summit is the premier conference for technical communication education and networking. The Summit attracts many attendees and exhibitors over a three-day period (7-9 June 2021), and brings together like-minded individuals to grow in their knowledge of the technical communication field.

As in past years, members of the Technical Editing SIG will be presenting talks at the Summit. To help you easily find them, we’ve put together a list. Please attend and encourage our members! (To register for the Summit, click here.)

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The Technical Editing SIG Wins a 2021 STC Pacesetter Award!

Announcing the 2021 STC Pacesetter Award Winners

Great news!

The STC has awarded the Technical Editing SIG a Pacesetter award for 2021! They were very impressed by our “inclusive vision in using Corrigo to ensure that those who are new to the STC, the TE SIG, or to the technical editing field have the opportunity to share their voices and perspectives”.

They are, of course, referring to our Newbies’ Corner feature, which provides a platform for new, fresh voices (especially students) to discuss technical editing – so us old fogies in the business can hear new ideas! If you are a student learning about technical editing or just starting out on your technical editing journey, and would like to submit an article, please send an email to editor@stc-techedit.org and let’s discuss it.

And even if you aren’t a newbie, you are quite welcome to submit articles about topics that you think technical editing practitioners will find interesting. For a list of ideas, click here.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Wanted: Corrigo Correspondents for Summit 2021

Are you going to attend the virtual STC Summit this year (5-9 June 2021)?

Are you going to listen to any of the excellent virtual sessions?

Are you going to learn interesting things about our chosen profession of technical editing?

Of course you are.

Why not share what you’ll learn with your colleagues?

Corrigo is looking for volunteer correspondents at the virtual Summit to write summaries of the sessions they attend – if you are able to help,  send an email to editor@stc-techedit.org,

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Of Interest: Definition of Quality (Editing) Panel at ConVEx 2021

Every documentation team strives to produce high-quality content. Unfortunately, the definition of what that means differs significantly, from company to company, from writer to writer, from user to user.

On 28 April 2021 at 0630 EDT at ConVEx 2021, a panel of top-class editors (Dana Aubin, Andrea Studzinski, and me too! :)) will talk about how to identify and prioritize the critical factors that influence the perception of quality, and discuss the best ways to achieve agreement on its definition.

To be a part of this fascinating discussion, as well as get more career-empowering knowledge, practices, networking, and practical solutions to improve your content strategy and technical documentation, register here: https://convex.infomanagementcenter.com

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Newbies’ Corner: Editing in an International Virtual Team (A Collaboration between Students at Mercer University and the Université de Paris)

Editor’s Note: This is another article in our Newbies’ Corner series. If you or your students are interested in submitting an article for this feature, please contact me at editor@stc-techedit.org.

By Madison Bellew, Jeremy Collins, Alex Donnelly, Danielle Levy, Sydnei Mayers, Jeremiah Pulliam, Kim Wallace, and Victoria Whitehead

Technical editing is often facilitated by technology, both for the practice of editing and for communication among contributors. Students in technical communication programs bring their own perspective to editing experiences that might differ from those of more experienced professional technical editors.

In this article, students in an international technical communication class at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, U.S., share their perspectives and the lessons they learned during their experience with an international editing project completed using virtual teaming. In the project, the Mercer University students edited a report written by students at the Université de Paris about technical communication in France. Students at both universities used multiple platforms to communicate as a team about expectations for the group, the report itself, and the edits made by the Mercer University students. 

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