Providing Effective Editing Comments – TE Webinar 18 March

Here’s a great webinar offer from STC’s Technical Editing SIG. Meredith Kinder, co-manager of the SIG, writes:

The STC Technical Editing SIG is pleased to co-sponsor a webinar with the Washington, DC, chapter. The webinar, titled “Providing Effective Editing Comments,” takes place on Wednesday, March 18, from noon to 2:00pm Eastern US time*, and Michelle Corbin and Paula Cross will be presenting. The fee for attending this webinar is $15 for Technical Editing SIG members, DC Chapter members, and students, $20 for STC members, and $25 for non-members. This is payable by credit card.

Webinar description: As technical editors, we must communicate effectively with writers so that they can easily implement changes in the information that we are editing. In addition to the editing markup, we use comments and queries to recommend how to improve the quality of the information. In this session, we present a thorough set of guidelines, each with specific examples, for how technical editors can provide effective comments and queries as part of an edit. After defining the different types of comments, we present guidelines for how to word comments (their tone), what you include in your comments (the content), and how you present your comments (their style). We conclude by recommending ways to summarize and present your comments and queries to the writers.

You can read more about this webinar and register (and pay) at:
http://www.stc.org/2009/02/13/Providing-Effective-Editing-Comments.asp

* Everyone who registers for this event will have access to a recorded version. Therefore, if you cannot attend in person, you can register for the event, download the recording, and view it at your convenience. Please note that the recorded webinar can only be played on a Windows computer.

If you have any additional questions, contact meredith.kinder at sas.com.