Editing in the Modern Classroom

Suzan Flanagan is the former managing editorial assistant for Technical Communication Quarterly. Before pursuing a PhD in rhetoric, writing, and professional communication, she worked as a freelance writer and editor. Her research focuses on technical and professional communication and the intersections of editorial processes, content strategy, and user experience. Michael J. Albers is a professor at East Carolina University, where he teaches in the professional writing program. Before coming to ECU, he taught for eight years at the University of Memphis and worked for ten years as a technical communicator, writing software documentation and performing interface design. His research interests include methods for effective communication of complex information.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Editing in the Modern Classroom: An Overview. Michael J. Albers & Suzan Flanagan

Chapter 2. The Current State of Technical Editing Research and the Open Questions. Suzan Flanagan

Chapter 3. "How Does That Make You Feel?": The Psychological Dimensions of Editorial Comments. Ryan K. Boettger

Chapter 4. Imagination as Agency: Communities of Practice and Editing Pedagogy. Tracy Bridgeford

Chapter 5. Teaching Editing through a Feminist Theoretical Lens. Susan Popham

Chapter 6. Editing For Human-Information Interaction. Michael J. Albers

Chapter 7. Concepts in Technical Editing Technologies: What’s Important in Practice? Clinton Lanier

Chapter 8. Editing for International Audiences: An Overview. Kirk St.Amant

Chapter 9. A Field-Wide View of Undergraduate and Graduate Editing Courses in Technical and Professional Communication Programs. Lisa Melonçon