Category: About Corrigo

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Quo Corrigo?

Technical editing, regardless of how the discipline is defined, is first and foremost reader advocacy – be it for documentation clarity, accuracy, relevance, or accessibility.

Corrigo is the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, and is a place where people who want to help readers can get useful information to do just that.

We think that Corrigo should only present information that focuses on technical editing, rather than on generic technical communication. To help us better focus our efforts, we’re turning to you to help us define the scope and direction of Corrigo.

Please take a few minutes out of your busy schedules and answer a small, anonymous questionnaire (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZT79YTQ).

(And if you havn’t done it yet, subscribe to Corrigo and get an email notification every time new content is posted! Just type your email address in the SUBSCRIBE TO CORRIGO VIA EMAIL section on the right side of this page.)

Your opinions are very important to us, and we appreciate your contribution.

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New Feature: A Little Humor!

Editing is a serious task – if done wrong, terrible things might happen.

As the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo is full of useful, serious information for technical editing practitioners.

But editing also has a lighter side, and we are delighted to announce a new feature that will spotlight the humorous side of our chosen profession.

Iva Cheung is a certified professional editor, indexer, print designer, and publishing consultant based in Metro Vancouver, B.C. She also draws comics about the editing life, and she’s graciously allowed Corrigo to publish them, which we will do on a monthly basis.

To see Iva’s previous comics, go to her website at https://www.ivacheung.com/. You can also follow her on Twitter (@IvaCheung).

To make it easier for you to find these comics again in the future, they will be tagged with the A Little Humor tag, and the titles prefaced with the same phrase.

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New Feature: Conversation Starter

As the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo is full of useful information for technical editing practitioners.

But the articles in Corrigo, however helpful they are, are really only a one-way street from the author to you, and not all topics are as cut-and-dried as we would like them to be.

Wouldn’t it be great if, after you read something really interesting, you could continue the discussion with the author? And wouldn’t it be even better if other technical editing practitioners could join in? And wouldn’t it be awesome if all of you could then put into practice what you’d discussed, making your professional lives that much better?

To enable back-and-forth discussion between peers about hot-button topics that affect the world of technical editing, we are introducing a new feature – Conversation Starter!

This new feature will present thought-provoking articles about things that are dear to the hearts of technical editing practitioners.

Because the goal of this feature is to start conversations around these issues, it’s important that we enable you to “have your say” in a way that maximizes the give-and-take needed for a true discussion:

  • You can submit your own article to Corrigo to debate with the author, write what you think about the topic, tell us if you’ve had similar or counter experiences, and to learn about what other innovative measures you might be taking to solve the issue.
  • You can use the Comments section to to do the same thing!
    If there are enough comments on a topic, we’ll collect them all and post them as an article as well.

To make it easier for you to find these articles again in the future, they will be tagged with a Conversation Starter tag, and the titles prefaced with the same phrase.

If you’d like to submit an article to start a conversation about something you feel passionate about OR if you want to continue a conversation that’s already started, please send an email to editor@stc-techedit.org and tell us about it.

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New Feature: The Best of Corrigo!

As the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo is full of useful information for technical editing practitioners.

But Corrigo has been around for a very long time, and there’s a lot of great content sitting in the archives. It’s neither practical nor useful to try and sift through years of back issues and posts.

So, to help you find older content that is still relevant, we are introducing a new feature – The Best of Corrigo!

Every now and then, we’ll republish an article from the archives that we think is still just as relevant and helpful now as it was when it was first published. (Of course, if an article needs to be slightly updated, we will do that.)

To make it easier for you to find these articles again in the future, they will be tagged with a The Best of Corrigo tag, and the titles prefaced with the same phrase.

If you have any suggestions for older Corrigo articles that you think should see the light of day again, please send an email to editor@stc-techedit.org and tell us why.

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Quo Corrigo? Survey Results

At the end of April 2018, we sent out a survey called “Quo Corrigo?” asking Corrigo readers to tell us about what kind of content they wanted to see here.

We felt that Corrigo should only present information that focuses on technical editing, rather than on generic technical communication. But we weren’t sure what that meant exactly, so we turned to you to help us define the future scope and direction of Corrigo.

As of the end of June 2018, we’ve received 35 responses to our survey, and we thank all of you who took the time to tell us your opinions.

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