The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
By Michelle Corbin
(originally published in 2013, republished with permission in 2019)
After reading a grammar textbook, I have been pondering how well technical editors need to know grammar. How much grammar must they know to edit the information, but also how much must they know to help their writers improve their writing ability?
Continue reading “The Best of Corrigo: Technical Editors Do Not Need To Be Grammarians”
By Sarah Barczyk
(originally published in 2009; updated with permission by Corrigo staff in 2018)
So you want to be a technical editor. You’re well-versed in grammar, style, punctuation, and the mechanics of the English language. You know what it takes to produce a clear, concise, readable paragraph and a coherent technical document.
Subject-matter experts within your company recognize that you’re an asset and routinely seek you out for writing help, and perhaps enlist your aid in editing large documents. But you know that so much more can be done. All you need is a process. It sounds so simple.
Continue reading “The Best of Corrigo: Setting Up an Editorial Review Process”
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.