[ATTW-L] technical editing class -- hard-copy markup?

[Durazzi, Allison J [ENGL]]

Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for kickstarting this thread! The Copyeditor's Handbook (2019) by Amy Einsohn and Marilyn Schwartz has a very compelling discussion about marking by hand: Marking by hand is still practiced in many publishing contexts and used in many pre-employment skills assessments (as Dina Lopez just noted!) especially for freelance editors. The authors also list several instances when electronic copyediting is not an option.

My students last Spring commented that they really like the copymarking module. Although I'm not clear about why they liked it, I will keep it in for now.

-Allison

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Allison Durazzi (she/her)
Rhetoric and Professional Communication, English Department
Iowa State University
durazzi at iastate.edu
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Subject: [ATTW-L] technical editing class -- hard-copy markup?

Hi, colleagues.

I have a question, and I'd like your input.

I'm updating my Technical Editing class, and I'm pondering whether to
keep or cut the unit on hard-copy markup. I taught this unit in years
past to good effect, but now that most editing is done electronically, I
wonder if hard-copy markup is a dead skill.

If you were to (or if you actually do) teach a course on technical
editing, would you teach hard-copy markup?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Jonathan Arnett
Associate Professor of Technical Communication
Department of Technical Communication & Interactive Design
Kennesaw State University


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