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

Tue Feb 1 17:37:22 UTC 2022

Hello all,
This is not a path to a copy of the outstanding Rude & Eaton Book. It is a
collection of just a few links to Items I have located on the interwebs
that can serve as supplemental and/or motivational materials for editing
students. My hope is that some folks find it useful. My dream is that
someone who has more time than I do is inspired to start a public
collection of similar information.

Sorry I don't have time to annotate or describe these links:

   1.

   http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/
   2.

   https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
   3.

   http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Grammar.html
   4.

   https://sherpablog.marketingsherpa.com/marketing/content-marketing-subject-matter-experts-questions/

   5.

   https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/index.html
   6.

   https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ui-design/beginners-guide-to-typography/
   7.

   https://www.basic-english-grammar.com/8-types-of-prepositions-in-english-grammar-with-examples.html/

   8.

   https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar/verbs/what-is-mood-in-grammar.html

   9.

   https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/collaborate-in-word-b3d7f2af-c6e9-46e7-96a7-dabda4423dd7

   10.

   https://www.zotero.org/download/
   11.

   https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/the-styles-advantage-in-word-b4a6372f-188c-93cb-831b-c4dd0cb3a881

Best,

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 11:08 AM Stephen Bernhardt <sab at udel.edu> wrote:

> The important aspect of Carolyn’s textbook is it’s comprehensive coverage
> of a professional editor’s roles and skills. A lot of those skills are very
> particular. Editing demands close understanding of syntax, style, and
> punctuation. Some editorial tasks require complex markup and command of
> style sheets, templates, and levels of edit. You won’t get that kind of
> systematic detail in a collection of readings.
>
> For what it's worth, my Writing at Work: Professional Writing Skills for
> People on the Job is miraculously still in print and generating sales, with
> some loyal adopters. We give close coverage to analyzing the writing
> situation, understanding syntax, style, and punctuation, and it is packaged
> with a set of exercises. This book does not cover the roles and specific
> skills of the professional editor, but it does work very well with students
> who need foundational understanding of how sentences work.
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 11:42 AM Josephine Walwema <walwema at uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*
>> *JOSEPHINE WALWEMA* PhD.
>>
>> Interdisciplinary Writing Program
>>
>> Department of English | A101 Padelford Hall
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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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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