A Special Interest Group of the Society for Technical Communication
Everyone makes typos, right? It’s part of being a technical communicator. We do our best to spot them before our content is released, and award mugs to those who spot them for us after the fact.
No one’s perfect though. Sometimes a mistake will slip through. What’s the worst that can happen? A radioactive bomb? Well, actually…
Continue reading “Of Interest: What’s the Worst That Could Happen? The Hidden Costs of Typos”
One of the trends that emerged from our Quo Corrigo? survey was that technical editing practitioners want to know how to work with writers who are sometimes resistant to feedback or do not follow processes, and how to ensure positive working relationships in cases of conflict.
Why do writers dislike seeing their work changed? And what do we do when we need to edit their work anyway?
On 23 August 2018, at 3 PM EDT, Marcia Shannon will examine some reasons for the writers’ resistance and offer suggestions for handling those objections while keeping the work in line with style guides and company standards.
This presentation is open to STC Technical Editing SIG members for free and non-SIG members for a small fee.
To register, go to https://m.stc-techedit.org/Editing+People+Who+Hate+to+be+Edited.
Note: Before the presentation, Technical Editing SIG leaders will present news items related to the SIG.
7 November 2018 Update
For two summaries of this presentation, go here.
The Center for Information–Development Management (CIDM) brings together the most highly skilled and talented managers in the field of information development from across the US and internationally to facilitate the sharing of information about current trends, best practices, and developments within the industry, from information development to training and support.
This summer, the CIDM IDEAS Online Conference (24-25 July 2018) is dedicated to the field of technical editing, and includes some really fascinating topics and presenters (including Yoel Strimling, editor of Corrigo!):
IDEAS is a two-day industry conference that you can attend virtually from the comfort of your own office. The conference includes five 60-minute concurrent sessions in two tracks, giving you a choice of 11 unique presentations. Participate live according to the published schedule or watch a recording of any session when it’s more convenient for you.
As the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo is full of useful information for technical editing practitioners.
But nothing can beat the experience of a live interaction, when like-minded technical editing practitioners get together to discuss ideas that lead to further professional development.
Events of interest to technical editing practitioners happen frequently (both face-to-face and online) and all over the world. And even if you couldn’t make it to one of them, someone who did can write a summary of what they learned and share it with the wider technical editing community.
To make sure that information about events of interest (both past and future) reaches people who want to know more, we are introducing a new feature – Of Interest!
Have you been to a presentation, webinar, or conference and learned something that you think needs to be brought to the attention of Corrigo’s readers? Do you know of a get-together, meetup, or talk that you think Corrigo‘s readers might want to attend? If so, write a summary of the event, send it to us at editor@stc-techedit.org, and we’ll consider adding it to our Of Interest feature.
To make it easier for you to find these articles again in the future, they will be tagged with an Of Interest tag, and the titles prefaced with the same phrase.
STC Technical Editing SIG’s very own Chris Lovie-Tyler (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrislovietyler/) is presenting what looks to be a fascinating talk at a TechCommNZ Auckland branch event on 29 May 2018 (https://techcomm.nz/Event?Action=View&Event_id=220&v=1)!
While it might be too far away for many of us, if you are in the area, we highly recommend that you attend – and then write up a summary for Corrigo!