Technical Editing

CAROLYN RUDE teaches professional writing and chairs the Department of English at Virginia Tech. Before becoming a professor, she worked as a technical writer and editor. She is past president and fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. She is also a fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and winner of its Jay R. Gould Award for excellence in teaching. She believes that understanding editing has enhanced her administrative work, not just because of required writing and document design but also because of the focus of comprehensive editing on readers and purposes, reading styles, and project management.  ANGELA EATON (angela.eaton@ttu.edu>) is an Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include technical editing, grant writing, and technical communication practices and pedagogies. She is the owner of the technical editing and grant writing firm Angela Eaton & Associates, LLC, is a member of the Association of the Teachers of Technical Writing, and is a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication . She was the 2005-2006 winner of the Society for Technical Communication's $10,000 Research Award. Her research has been published in Technical Communication, Business Communication Quarterly, and three edited collections.

• I. PEOPLE AND PURPOSES. 1. Editing: The Big Picture. 2. Readers, Users, Browsers, Problem Solvers. 3. Collaborating with Writers. II. METHODS AND TOOLS. 4. Marking Paper Copy. 5. Marking Digital Copy. 6. Electronic Editing by David Dayton. III. BASIC COPYEDITING. 7. Basic Copyediting: An Introduction. 8. Copyediting for Consistency. 9. Spelling, Capitalization, and Abbreviations. 10. Grammar and Usage. 11. Punctuation. 12. Quantitative and Technical Material. 13. Proofreading. IV. COMPREHENSIVE EDITING. 14. Comprehensive Editing: Definition and Process.. 15. Style: Definition and Sentence Structures.. 16. Style: Verbs and Other Words. 17. Organization: The Architecture of Information. 18. Visual Design. 19. Editing Illustrations.. 20. Editing for Global Contexts. 21. Legal and Ethical Issues in Editing. 22. Type and Production. 23. Project Management. 24. Client Projects.