The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
Did the headline grab your attention?
Author George R. R. Martin (known to many as the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, which are the basis for the hit TV series Game of Thrones) intended for it to do exactly that.
Continue reading “From Around the Web: Editors – The Writer’s Natural Enemy”Many businesses use Microsoft Word as their primary tool for creating documentation and other digital texts. Using Word can be challenging when performing edits with multiple subject matter experts (SMEs) and individual contributors with varied writing skill levels.
As a technical communicator who was tasked with managing product suite documentation in Word, I had to find ways to streamline technical editing. After months of trial and error, I found three collaboration tools that integrate with Word that worked for me.
Continue reading “This Worked for Me: Three Collaboration Tools for Technical Editors Who Use Word”A style guide for writing correctly on the New York Times’ bestseller list? An editor interviewed on NPR?
Be still my beating heart!
Benjamin Dreyer, copy chief of Random House, has just published “Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style”, and it is making a huge impression on many people. Who would’ve thought that there was such a thirst for clear and and concise guidelines about how to write better English?
To order this amazing book (and to read glowing reviews of it), click here.
If you order this book and want to write a review of it for Corrigo, please contact me at editor@stc-techedit.org.
Are you an STC TE SIG member with logo design skills?
If so, we need you to help redesign our logo!
Entries are being accepted now until the end of February 2019. The winner will receive a prize valued at $100, and their design will be displayed on promotional materials for the 2019 STC Summit, as well as on all other official STC TE SIG publications.
For more details, go to https://stc-techedit.org/tiki-index.php?page=Logo+Contest.
UPDATED 14 MARCH 2019:
The contest has been extended to 31 March 2019.
By Sarah Barczyk
(originally published in 2009; updated with permission by Corrigo staff in 2018)
So you want to be a technical editor. You’re well-versed in grammar, style, punctuation, and the mechanics of the English language. You know what it takes to produce a clear, concise, readable paragraph and a coherent technical document.
Subject-matter experts within your company recognize that you’re an asset and routinely seek you out for writing help, and perhaps enlist your aid in editing large documents. But you know that so much more can be done. All you need is a process. It sounds so simple.
Continue reading “The Best of Corrigo: Setting Up an Editorial Review Process”