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First impressions or assumptions based on the words we use
I love the Nielsen Norman Group articles. Their tag line summarizes their style of writing well: “Evidence-Based User Experience Research, Training, and Consulting.” Their articles are focused, on a single topic, and they always include inline links to other articles … Continue reading
Posted in Copy editing, Language, Terminology, Writing
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Standard English is built from agreed-upon conventions
I’m busily preparing a course for the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Technical Communication certificate program. It is “Grammar and Style for Technical Communicators.” I’ve chosen three (yes, three!) textbooks, and I continue to find wonderful articles across the bloggersphere and … Continue reading
Posted in Copy editing, Grammar
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The value of edit summaries
After you complete an edit, do you take the time to review your edits as a whole and write an edit summary for the author? Or, is this (or some part of this) just part of your email that you … Continue reading
Posted in Copy editing, Substantive editing, Technical Editing
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for my blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading
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Many hats…but one love of technical editing
About a year ago, I wrote a post about where I was taking my blog — I was widening the scope to include more than just technical editing topics as my very first post suggested. I did post on a … Continue reading
Posted in Content Strategy, Information Architecture, Technical Editing
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Arbiters of Quality 