<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Hello Technical Communication Folks,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">I taught a course in technical editing at the University of
Washington from 1982 to (approximately) 2000. I have a large collection of
teaching materials—teaching notes, student handouts, exercises, etc. I hold the
copyright to most of it. I would happily contribute this material to any effort
to create a new (ideally, public domain) textbook.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">I also wrote a 40-page monograph, <i>How to Teach Technical
Editing, </i>that was published by the Society for Technical Communication in 1986. I was told that it sold well for many years. Much of it can be re-written as
student-facing textbook material. STC holds the copyright but would, I assume,
transfer it to people who are creating a resource that would be useful for our
field.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">I have put all this material up on my Google Drive. This is
the public link:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LLUsM4GtFvjTuNsZlnohelMsa3P4aZrT?usp=drive_link" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LLUsM4GtFvjTuNsZlnohelMsa3P4aZrT?usp=drive_link</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">I hereby put all the technical editing material that I have
authored and placed in my Technical Editing Google Drive folder in the public
domain. Anyone is welcome to use and adapt it, whether for some kind of textbook or for the use of individual instructors.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">A signed declaration of public
domain status is included among the Google Drive files.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">All this material will remain available in my Google Drive
for the duration of the year 2025.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Carolyn Rude’s technical editing textbook is excellent. But
I recognize that it may be very desirable to make a less expensive (or no cost)
textbook option available to our students.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">-- Dave Farkas</p></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><br></p></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">David K. Farkas, Professor Emeritus<br>Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering<br>University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA<br><a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/farkas" target="_blank">https://faculty.washington.edu/farkas</a><br><a href="mailto:farkas@uw.edu" target="_blank">farkas@uw.edu</a><br>QuikScan for better reading: <a href="http://quikscan.org" target="_blank">https://quikscan.org</a><div>Pronouns: he, him, his</div></div></div></div>