The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
Tasha Fowler
This past month, a professor in the communication studies department asked me to help format a chapter for his book. He’d submitted his text to the publisher, and the publisher responded with a mega-list of formatting issues that needed to be addressed before the chapter could be resubmitted.
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For editors, relationships are important and conflict resolution is critical. Through the entire review process, editors have to carefully and tactfully deal with not only language and style issues, but also issues of egos and emotions.
In keeping with our promise to provide an article on watercooler chats 
, here is a summary article of the last watercooler chat, which was a four-part series on “Managing Documentation Projects in a Collaborative World — New Best Practices for Editors.” The chat series was held between January and February, 2011 and was moderated by STC Fellow, Larry Kunz.
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Kathy Underwood
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) by Carol Fisher Saller (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
For several years, I taught technical editing (among other courses) at the University of Washington. If I were still teaching that course, I would include this book as required reading. Although almost all textbooks on technical editing cover the weighty matter of
In Part 1, I presented background information about my research on editing Wikipedia articles.
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