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

Tue Feb 1 17:54:23 UTC 2022

Without addressing questions of technical editing and social justice, I did
want to share that Oxford UP has published a technical editing textbook by
Donald Cunningham, Edward Malone, and Joyce Rothschild. It's called *Technical
Editing: An Introduction to Editing in the Workplace* and was published in
2019. It can be previewed freely by educators on Vitalsource. Amazon lists
it at just under $73, which makes it lower priced than the Rude/Eaton text
as well.

https://global.oup.com/ushe/disciplines/english/business-and-technical-writing-courses/technical-editing/

Robert Terry, PhD
Associate Professor, Professional and Technical Writing
Department of Writing and Linguistics
Georgia Southern University - Armstrong Campus
Pronouns: he/him/his

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 12:42 PM Joseph Robertshaw <jwr0015 at uah.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9677-9308
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a public, university-owned email account and subject to an Open Records
>>> request through the Freedom of Information Act at any time. Correspondence
>>> of a personal nature should be sent to: jwalwema at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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