How to Edit Technical Documents
Autor Donald W. Bush, Charles P. Campbellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 apr 1995 – vârsta până la 17 ani
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780897748704
ISBN-10: 0897748700
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0897748700
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Notă biografică
Donald W. Bush is a lecturer in technical writing at San Diego State University and a former technical editor for McDonnell Douglas, St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked for 25 years. He has extensive experience in journalism, public relations, and technical editing, including seven years as public relations supervisor at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. He has taught writing and editing courses at various universities and colleges and has written numerous articles and book reviews, mostly on technical writing and editing.Charles P. Campbell, PhD, is professor emeritus of English, Humanities Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico. Previously, he taught English at several other universities and colleges. He has written and edited numerous articles, reports, book reviews, and films, and is a frequent presenter and lecturer on the subject of technical communication.
Cuprins
Preface viiAcknowledgements xiChapter 1. Technical Editing: A Changing Profession 1Chapter 2. Editing for Content 10Chapter 3. Cutting Copy 18Chapter 4. Document Organization 28Chapter 5. Words 39Chapter 6. Sentences with Style 52Chapter 7. Paragraphs 67Chapter 8. Grammar 73Chapter 9. Punctuation 93Chapter 10. Editing Graphics 100Chapter 11. Marking Manuscripts 113Chapter 12. Triage: Dealing with Typescripts under Deadline 120Chapter 13. Getting Along with Authors 139Appendix A. Editing Technical Manuals 147Appendix B. Editing Technical Proposals 158Appendix C. About Style Manuals 168Appendix D. Bibliography of Cited and Other Useful Sources 170Index 177
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[A] practical guide for editing both the substance and structure of technical documents. While primarily designed for editors, this 169-page guide and accompanying workbook will also help educators and students improve technical writing skills.
One pleasantly noticeable feature of these companion texts is their narrative voice. I find it comfortably readable and simultaneously authoritative without sounding overly dogmatic. The writing is vivid, opinionated, and yet not at all pretentious. . . . Bush and Campbell demonstrate a clear competence to speak about technical editing. This competency is based upon a real familiarity with workplace practices and competency is based upon a real familiarity with workplace practices and expectations and an updated and comprehensive knowledge of current research in the domains of rhetoric, linguistics, and cognitive psychology.
[E]ssential reading for all technical communicators. . . . I found the accompanying workbook stimulating. . . . It is the direct approach of the book's principles that make Bush and Campbell's ideas powerful. . . . [A]n excellent textbook for advanced technical communication students. It also works as a discussion stimulator, refresher course, and research tool for experienced editors and writers. . . . [I]t will push you to think about some of the core values of our profession.
These two volumes could be a useful reference for any advisor involved in producing written material.
[T]he best feature of How to Edit Technical Documents is that it makes you think about neglected aspects of the editor's work. . . . Their concept of the editor's job goes beyond the copyediting level to something that can reasonably be called technical editing rather than simply the copyediting of technical documents. . . . Perhaps the best chapter is on triage (i.e. editing manuscripts under deadline pressure), where the first task is to rea d the copy and see if it makes sense, rather than to first attack issues like consistency of capitilization. . . . As someone who came to editing from the science/engineering (rather than the language) side of the desk, I heartily agree with this approach. The authors also provide in this chapter a useful real-world example of a triage edit, which focuses on the organization of the document to make it at least understandable (if not well-edited in the traditional sense).
One pleasantly noticeable feature of these companion texts is their narrative voice. I find it comfortably readable and simultaneously authoritative without sounding overly dogmatic. The writing is vivid, opinionated, and yet not at all pretentious. . . . Bush and Campbell demonstrate a clear competence to speak about technical editing. This competency is based upon a real familiarity with workplace practices and competency is based upon a real familiarity with workplace practices and expectations and an updated and comprehensive knowledge of current research in the domains of rhetoric, linguistics, and cognitive psychology.
[E]ssential reading for all technical communicators. . . . I found the accompanying workbook stimulating. . . . It is the direct approach of the book's principles that make Bush and Campbell's ideas powerful. . . . [A]n excellent textbook for advanced technical communication students. It also works as a discussion stimulator, refresher course, and research tool for experienced editors and writers. . . . [I]t will push you to think about some of the core values of our profession.
These two volumes could be a useful reference for any advisor involved in producing written material.
[T]he best feature of How to Edit Technical Documents is that it makes you think about neglected aspects of the editor's work. . . . Their concept of the editor's job goes beyond the copyediting level to something that can reasonably be called technical editing rather than simply the copyediting of technical documents. . . . Perhaps the best chapter is on triage (i.e. editing manuscripts under deadline pressure), where the first task is to rea d the copy and see if it makes sense, rather than to first attack issues like consistency of capitilization. . . . As someone who came to editing from the science/engineering (rather than the language) side of the desk, I heartily agree with this approach. The authors also provide in this chapter a useful real-world example of a triage edit, which focuses on the organization of the document to make it at least understandable (if not well-edited in the traditional sense).