High-tech publications need old-fashioned editing

: Standard formats, familiar word choices, consistency, organization, simple graphic formats, technology, mechanics, and the global nature of the user and the media are major considerations that are often ignored when producing high-tech publications. Oversights and errors are usually corrected in print publications with conventional editing as a step in the production process. However, the authors noticed during a recent Society for Technical Communications chapter publications competition that many creators of websites, online help, and other electronic publications appear to skip the editing step when producing their documents. Applying old-fashioned editing techniques such as following a style guide, proofreading, testing links, and trying to look at a document with a fresh perspective could have made these publications winners. © 2000 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: SIGDOC
• Authors: Janis Ramey, Marlene Miller
• Keywords: Document Analysis, Familiar Word Choices, Publications, SIGDOC 2000, Simple Graphic Formats