The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
Kelsey Berteaux, Undergraduate Scholarship Winner
I became a technical editor entirely by accident.
Before I was ever interested in English and editing, I worked in IT. I loved working in IT. The job was fast-paced, engaging, and often intense, but it was a blast.
Kelcie Sharp, Graduate Scholarship Winner
I first discovered my interest in technical editing during my undergraduate studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where I worked as an intern for a semester at a publishing company that provided healthcare and medical information for magazines, newsletters, and websites for hospitals.
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Elsa Kapitan-White
We’ve all heard the saying about the three most important things in real estate: location, location, location. That same advice also applies to using keywords on your web pages for search engine optimization (SEO).
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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Ann Marie Queeney and Kelly Schrank
Thank you to our survey participants!
Although the NATO conference was the higher-profile event, STC managed to generate its own excitement at the 59th STC Summit at the Hyatt O’Hare. The STC Summit, held May 20 – 23, offered a wide spectrum of interesting topics, time to reconnect with friends and colleagues, and opportunities to meet new people.
Continue reading “The Roving Technical Editors Report on the STC Summit”