The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
Ann Marie Queeney and Kelly Schrank
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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”
Carol Lamarche
The atmosphere at the STC 2012 Summit, the annual STC conference, was electric, with terrific presenters inspiring conversation and new directions.
By Kelly Schrank
At the STC Summit 2012, the session “Why Technical Editors Are Still Relevant” drew a big audience. The distinguished panelists were all well known in the Technical Editing SIG and STC. Continue reading “Summit Panel Discussion: Why Technical Editors are Still Relevant”
By Michelle Corbin
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published as a post to Michelle’s blog, Technical Editors: Arbiters of Quality, on January 23, 2012.
Recently, I ran across a Grammar Girl article that was guest authored by a linguist about the topic of omitting the word “that” from sentences. Continue reading “The Magic of Syntactic Cues”
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”