The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
The Plain Language Association InterNational will hold its 9th biennial conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 10 to 13, 2013. The theme of the international conference is Plain Language Advances: New skills, knowledge, research, and best practices. The conference will be co-hosted with Community Plain Language Services Corp.
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Cheryl Stephens
Cheryl Stephens
This article was inspired by a talk given by Dominique Joseph to the Editors Association of Canada. The handout is here:
http://icclear.net/whats-new-in-2012
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Kathy Underwood
In the field of software documentation, Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition, is a watershed, especially in its effort to frame terminology and discourse vis-à-vis the natural user interface (that is, the new types of interfaces that have begun to appear, especially those that use contact gestures and air gestures).
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By Kathy Underwood
Do you think that the following phrase—from Roosevelt’s speech preceding the declaration of war in 1941—has a grammatical error? Continue reading “The Technical Stylist: All That and Which Too”