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Of Interest: A Survey about Gendered Terms

Jo Mackiewicz at Iowa State University and Jordan Smith at University of Northern Colorado are studying editors’ perceptions of male and female to describe connector ends.

About a year ago, they ran a similar survey in which they sought the input of technical editors. This time, they’d like to broaden the pool of opinions. If you work as an editor on any type of writing, they would love for you participate.

The anonymous survey takes about 10 minutes. If you’ve got time, they’d also like to interview you about these usage items, but the interview isn’t required to participate.

The link to the survey is:
https://iastate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Qmx8KUzt7YDUOi

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Of Interest: Editing Essentials for Writers and Editors Course

The goal of technical writers and editors alike is to produce consistent, accurate, and complete information products. Reaching this standard requires a systematic approach to condensation, organization, and correction of the copy.

Join the CIDM’s Dana Aubin for a six-week training program (22 January – 26 February 2025 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET) that will take you through the five levels of editing and gain strategies and tips for creating cleaner content.

For details, go to https://comtechservices.com/training/editing/; for tickets, go to https://comtechservices.com/event/editing-essentials-for-writers-and-editors-2025/.

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Edit This! Quiz #8

Editor’s Note: This is the eighth 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/2017/08/17/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz-8.html

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Edit This! Quiz #7

Editor’s Note: This is the seventh 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/2017/06/27/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz-7.html

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Edit This! Quiz #6

Editor’s Note: This is the sixth 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/2017/05/19/insider/00copyeditquiz6.html