[ATTW-L] social justice in technical editing texts?

Tue Feb 1 16:35:11 UTC 2022

Dear ryan,

I am sorry to hear that the Rude Editing text has been discontinued. I am
responding because I am very much interested in resources for editing and I
hope folks come through as they always do.

Cheers

Josie
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 4:35 PM ryan moeller <rylish.moeller at gmail.com>
wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i’m currently teaching USU’s graduate-level “Advanced Editing” course, and
> i’ve overhauled it to have a social justice focus. for example, we are
> talking about ways that an editor acts as a reader advocate or a user
> experience designer for texts of all sorts and across multiple modalities;
> instead of style guides, we are investigating social justice focused
> style guides <https://ideasonfire.net/journal-style-guide/>; and we are
> interrogating editing practices (like adherence to “correctness” or
> “rules") that have been shown not to help struggling writers improve their
> writing or have been shown to have fallen out of use or favor among various
> audiences.
>
> back in the before times when i was deciding on course textbooks, i chose
> Rude & Eaton’s *Technical Editing*, (5th Edition), for its emphasis on
> readers’ needs over correctness or grammar rules. the textbook publisher,
> Pearson, allowed me to place the book order from their website
> <https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Rude-Technical-Editing-5th-Edition/PGM100003100757.html?tab=overview> (that
> in no way indicated then nor does it indicate now that the text has been
> discontinued), my bookstore didn’t have any problem adopting it, and my
> students haven’t had trouble purchasing the text. however, i requested
> an desk copy through the publisher’s website twice, and i received no
> response. when i contacted my Pearson publishing representative, they told
> me that since the book is out of date (2014), they would not send me a pdf
> or electronic version of the publication, nor would they request a desk
> copy or exam copy for me. their suggestion was to look for a more
> up-to-date textbook and sent me a link to Pearson’s entire catalog.
>
> leaving the problematics of customer service and maybe the error of my
> reliance on older publishing models whereby instructors didn’t have to
> purchase their own textbooks aside, the situation that i find myself in has
> me thinking that i may have missed some great resources on editing over the
> last few years. here’s a list of a few that i have become aware of and am
> using in class to supplement the Rude & Eaton text, but if you know of
> others, will you please DM me with those resources? i will happily compile
> a list in my course bibliography and share it with everyone who is
> interested.
>
> Anti-racist scholarly reviewing practices: A heuristic for editors,
> reviewers, and authors. (2021). Retrieved from
> https://tinyurl.com/reviewheuristic.
> Baker, M.J., Nightingale, E.M., & Bills, S. (2021). An editing process for
> blind or visually impaired editors. *IEEE Transactions on Professional
> Communication, 64*(3), 275–287.
> Cabezas, P., Spinuzzi, C., Sabaj, O., & Varas, G. (2020). Editing the
> pitch: Patterns of editing strategies of written pitches in a Chilean
> accelerator program.* IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 63*(4),
> 296–310.
>
> Fisher Saller, C. (2016). The subversive copy editor (2nd ed.). The
> University of Chicago Press.
> Itchuaqiyaq, C.U., & Walton, R. (2021). Reviewer as activist:
> Understanding academic review through Conocimiento. *Rhetoric Review, 40*(4),
> 378-394.
> Jones, N.N., & Williams, M.F. (2017). The social justice of plain
> language: A critical approach to plain-language analysis.* IEEE
> Transactions on Professional Communication, 60*(4), 412–429.
> Meloncon, L. (2019). A Field-Wide View of Undergraduate and Graduate
> Editing Courses in Technical and Professional Communication Programs, in *Editing
> in the Modern Classroom *(pp. 171-191).
>
>
> i’m also considering whether turning these course materials into a
> textbook would be helpful to others of you, and whether anyone else is
> working on Editing for Social Justice projects that i can endorse or
> support or collaborate on?
>
> thanks!
>
> ryan or rylish moeller
>
> associate professor
> technical communication & rhetoric
> department of english
> utah state university
>
> pronouns: he.him.his
>
>
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