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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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
One nice thing about word processors is that they make it much easier to find and fix the inevitable errors that arise from authors who can’t spell and editors like me who get fumblefingered under deadline pressure.
Cynthia Thompson
Since I entered publishing in the early 1980s as an editor for a small publisher of religious books, computers have caused immense changes in the business. Many elements of the editor’s duties in prepress have been transformed by:
(1) electronic submission,
(2) electronic workflow management,
(3) desktop electronic operation, and
(4) electronic proofing.
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Alan Kelly
I work in a department responsible for on-the-job training and have experienced the challenges of working with people for whom English is a second language. I see that sometimes they become frustrated, for lack of a better term, when writing. What they have in their minds is not always reflected in the written document. My colleagues are extremely knowledgeable – they just have a language barrier. This is where I come in.
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