Jennifer Smith
The official newsletter of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo, is almost 13 years old. It began as a hard-copy mailed newsletter and most recently has been published in a wiki format. Over the years, we’ve published an impressive array of articles on a wide range of topics. Because I don’t think the great content in Corrigo is as visible as it deserves to be, I’ve been looking for a way to showcase it and make past content more visible and accessible.
With the support and encouragement of the STC officers and co-managers, we’ve added a blog format. The blog does not at this time replace the wiki version. The wiki will still exist. We’ve just added another channel to view the accumulated wit and wisdom of Corrigo.
Located at stc-techedit.org/corrigo, the blog has a few features that will make finding articles easier. For instance, on the right-hand column, there are links to every Corrigo issue by date. Articles themselves are tagged with the traditional Corrigo categories, Education, Grammar, Levels of Edit, Process, Punctuation, Skills, and Style. I’ve also added tags for author names. Clicking on the tags yields a list of all the articles with those tags.
There’s also a Search field in the upper right corner.
I hope you find this addition helpful. Let us know what you think!
Many, Many Thanks!
Thank you to everyone who made this possible, most especially Rick Sapir, our Webmaster! I also deeply appreciate the assistance of Thasha Ramdas, who helped with formatting, as well as all my wonderful copyediting volunteers.
Special Note
We have made great progress in adding old articles to our archive, but some are simply missing. If you or anyone you know might have the following Corrigo newsletters, we’d very much appreciate being allowed to copy old articles out of them to make our collection complete.
- March 2001, Vol 1, No. 4: “Political Correctness for the ‘Naughty Aughties’ “
- March 2001, Vol 1, No. 4: “Writing for Audiences Who Are Non-Native English Speakers” (Melanie Flanders)
- ? September 2001?, Vol. 2, No. 1: Entire issue
- September 2002, Vol. 3, No. 3: Entire Issue (articles include: “How Do I Know? Who Versus Whom,” “Magic Metrics: Estimating Time for Technical Editing,” and “Take a New Approach: Consider Getting Started in Contracting.”
- December 2002, Vol. 3, No. 4 (article missing from PDF): “Scientific Writing and Editing: Problems, Pitfalls, and Pratfalls”