The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
Heather Hall
We know you want to make your documentation as useful to clients as you can. To help you achieve this goal, TE SIG member Heather Hall (Austin, Texas) compiled a list of 10 common documentation mistakes and what you, as an editor, can do to correct them.
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Julia Neunreiter
Just as fairy tales and fables soothed you as a child, so can they soothe you as an adult facing the prospects of layoffs, downsizing and restructuring.
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Diane Feldman
At the beginning of 2000, the TE SIG was in a peculiar state: it had no leader or infrastructure, but it had hundreds of members. That strange juxtaposition of facts told me that editors are ready and eager to exchange ideas, concerns, and resources, but had no means of doing so. In the past year, we have made the first steps to provide the missing means.
Diane Feldman
In many groups that produce technical communication, an editor is a luxury — someone using headcount that would be better filled by another writer. These groups’ creative solution to editing the work they produce is to rely on the writers to edit each other’s work.
Geoff Hart
“Political correctness is an oxymoron”—Jean-Marie Golsse
Even as we’re moving through the first decade of our new millennium, the “naughty aughties” as some wags have dubbed it [*1], we’re still dragging along plenty of baggage [*2] from the last century. For example, inadvertently using offensive or politically incorrect words remains one of those things that wakes editors, screaming, in the middle of the night.
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