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

[Stephen Bernhardt]

Not sure if Carolyn is monitoring this discussion. A different option would
be for Carolyn to get a release of copyright from Allyn $ Bacon and publish
in Kindle. She could set the price and enjoy the royalties, which approach
70% on self publishing.

Steve Bernhardt
Bayside DE


On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM David K. Farkas <farkas at uw.edu> wrote:

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