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

Tue Jan 10 17:01:17 UTC 2023

Friends,

I also teach a professional and technical editing class, and I also use The Copyeditor’s Handbook along with The Copyeditor’s Workbook as key texts in the class. I echo others that the discussion of on-page and on-screen editing in those books is useful, and will add that the Workbook has a good exercise for handwritten editing with an excellent answer key that students can check their work against (I have scans of this if anyone would like to see it).

Because my class is listed at the 200-level, is so condensed (8 weeks, fully asynchronous), and is meant to serve students from lots of majors, The Copyeditor’s Handbook/Workbook is the only instruction and practice students get with handwritten editing in my class. The rest of the class focuses on on-screen editing and collaboration, mostly over Google Docs.

One other thing that might be of use to you, Jonathan, as you redevelop your course, and to others who teach this. In developing my own course for asynchronous delivery, I ended up writing several short articles on editing-related topics that I couldn’t find good readings for, and I published them on my open-educational resource site, Grover’s English, in the “Technical Communication”<http://groversenglish.com/technicalcommunication.php> section:

  *   “Types of Editing” lays out for students the different major branches of the editing profession and discusses what employment looks like in each.
  *   “Levels of Edit” is a brief and accessible introduction to the concept of editing levels and how I, as a working editor, use them.
  *   “The Editorial Mindset” attempts to describe the cognitive space editors inhabit when working and gives several tips students can use to develop their own mindsets.
  *   “How I Accidentally Became an Editor” describes my own path to the profession (with a funny story about how I learned the proofreaders’ marks to fake my way into a job!) as an example of the often sideways nature of finding a career.
  *   “Transmittal Letter Tips” presents two real-life transmittal letters I sent to clients and discusses how and why they work.
  *   “Editing with an In-House Style” explains what an in-house style is and how it is usually built from a broad foundation (like Chicago) with ever more specific layers to serve house needs.

These are completely free to use and are at stable URLs that won’t change, so please feel free to incorporate them into your classes or use them as supplements if you find them useful. If you have suggestions for their improvement, I’d love to hear them, and if you have suggestions for additional articles or would like to write one yourself, I’d love to hear that too.

Best,
David

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The Copyeditor's Handbook by Amy Einsohn and Marilyn Schwartz is the book I've been using for years. I do know editors who use hardcopy editing in some contexts, especially if that's the best way to work with authors. Some of the students in my undergrad editing and publishing class aren't sure what kind of editing they'll be doing.

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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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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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