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Coming Soon: The STC TESIG Editors’ Exchange 2024 Mini-Conference!

The goal of the STC Technical Editing SIG (TESIG) is to provide its members with high quality information about editing processes and best practices, as well as resources that demonstrate the value of editing and editors in an organization.

To meet this goal, we are happy to announce EdEx24, an online mini-conference dedicated to the field of technical editing and to technical editing practitioners.

EdEx24 will be held on 19 November 2024 from 8:45 AM to 12:00 PM ET (for your local time, go to https://tinyurl.com/yffvfspx). Come hear the following fascinating speakers:

  • Jayme Perlman will be presenting a session called “Using Publicly Available AI Interfaces as Editorial Tools”.
  • Dana Aubin will be speaking about “Crafting Clarity: Strategies for Effective Self-Editing”.
  • In our student-dedicated slot, a TechComm student TBD – keep your eyes posted!

We especially encourage students and new technical editing practitioners to join us!

To see details about the presentations and to purchase tickets for EdEx24, go to https://tinyurl.com/mrj62na5.

The price of the tickets is for the entire mini-conference, and attendees can join at any time. All sessions will be recorded, and the recordings and slides will be made available to attendees after the mini-conference.

EdEx24 attendees who are STC members can earn up to 2 CEUs for the full half-day program. For credit, submit a request for CEUs to certification@stc.org.

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Edit This! Quiz #5

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth quiz in the Edit This! series, which is intended to help technical editing practitioners improve their editing skills by editing a challenging piece of text, and then seeing how they did.
We will be posting more of these quizzes throughout 2024-2025.

Try your hand (red pen?) on this edition of the New York Times’s Copy Edit This! quiz, written by Philip B. Corbett. Corbett is the associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/17/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz-5.html

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Of Interest: AI in a Technical Editing Context Study

Are you integrating AI into your editing processes? If so, your insights could be invaluable to ongoing research led by Dr. Lance Cummings at UNC Wilmington. He is conducting interviews to explore the strategies and challenges faced by technical editing practitioners using AI in their workflows. These interviews will contribute to a broader understanding of how AI is shaping the future of technical communication.

Dr. Cummings invites you to participate in a 30-45 minute interview conducted via Zoom, where you can share your experiences and perspectives. Your input will help uncover best practices and potential pitfalls, offering valuable guidance to others in the field.

If you’re interested in contributing to this important research, please contact Dr. Cummings at cummingsl@uncw.edu. Your participation will benefit both technical communication academics and practitioners, and provide you with a way to reflect on and share your expertise in this critical area.

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Of Interest: Editing an Employee Handbook

So your HR department asked you to help update the employee handbook?

On 27 August 2024 at 1200 PM ET (click here for your local time), join Cindy Pao as she talks about doing a major update to the employee handbook at a previous employer. We’ll talk about the people you want on the review team, the goals for performing the update, and how your technical editing skills can help produce an employee handbook understood by most.

For tickets, click the link below:

Register on Eventbrite
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Edit This! Quiz #4

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth quiz in the Edit This! series, which is intended to help technical editing practitioners improve their editing skills by editing a challenging piece of text, and then seeing how they did.
We will be posting more of these quizzes throughout 2024-2025.

Try your hand (red pen?) on this edition of the New York Times’s Copy Edit This! quiz, written by Philip B. Corbett. Corbett is the associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/10/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz-4.html