[ATTW-L] I've made my technical editing course material available

[David K. Farkas]

Hello Technical Communication Folks,

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.

I also wrote a 40-page monograph, *How to Teach Technical Editing, *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.

I have put all this material up on my Google Drive. This is the public link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LLUsM4GtFvjTuNsZlnohelMsa3P4aZrT?usp=drive_link

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.

A signed declaration of public domain status is included among the Google
Drive files.

All this material will remain available in my Google Drive for the duration
of the year 2025.

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.



-- Dave Farkas


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David K. Farkas, Professor Emeritus
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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