Category: Newbies’ Corner

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Newbies’ Corner: Monthly TESIG Student Chats

One of the goals of the TESIG is to help technical editing students get more involved in the field. We want to hear some new, fresh voices, especially from those who are studying the subject or just starting out.  It’s important to us to discuss the needs, dreams, and issues of the next generation of technical editing practitioners.

With this goal in mind, we are excited to announce the TESIG Monthly Student Chat series!

These 30-minute virtual chats will be held over Zoom on the last Wednesday of each month, and are a forum for current TESIG student members to discuss editing challenges, as well as share helpful resources, editing tactics and tips, and career advice about finding internships/jobs.

For details, please contact student_outreach@stc-techedit.org.

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Call for Submissions to Corrigo!

Do you have something to say that you think technical editing practitioners will find interesting? Then consider submitting it for publication on Corrigo!

You don’t need to be a member of the STC Technical Editing SIG – regardless of your official job title, we welcome and encourage everyone to read and submit to Corrigo.

Corrigo has lots of different feature categories:

You can submit short (1000 words or less), original content about subjects you think technical editing practitioners might find interesting, for example:

  • Stories about how applying technical editing skills increases reader satisfaction
  • Information about tools you find helpful
  • Hacks that you use to make your job easier
  • Tips about how to balance quality and deadlines
  • Vignettes about a day in your life as a technical editing practitioner
  • Links to sites you find helpful in your job, with explanations about how they help you
  • Reviews of articles, books, or events you’ve read or been to that relate to technical editing

We’re also looking for longer, more detailed original articles about topics that pertain to technical editing, both its theory and its practice.

Send your submissions to the Corrigo editor, Yoel Strimling, at editor@stc-techedit.org.
We’ll try to get back to you within three weeks with our decision. If we think changes need to be made to the submission before it is accepted, we’ll make suggestions.

If you want to discuss possible ideas for submission to Corrigo, send an email to Yoel, and he’ll be happy to listen.

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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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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. 

Continue reading “Newbies’ Corner: Editing in an International Virtual Team (A Collaboration between Students at Mercer University and the Université de Paris)”
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Newbies’ Corner: Can You Help a Student Out?

Rita Johnson is a student in a Technical Editing course enrolled at Bowling Green State University. She’s doing a research project, combining psychology and editing. Rita’s project focuses on how technical editors can better provide feedback to their clients and strengthen professional communication.

For her project, she’s looking for technical editing practitioners who would be willing to answer a few questions in this Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccAnKr8wesPDEeGeE8_PGu_Gz2woEXEKdabj9MAdO2xr07pw/viewform

Rita will really appreciate your responses as she continues to learn from us and our technical editing experiences!