Provides a journalism teacher's handout that summarizes the essentials of the "Associated Press Stylebook." (RL)

Summarizes a number of ways technical editors can develop an atmosphere of mutual respect in editing the writing of subject matter specialists. (TJ)

Describes an intensive, two-day program for business and institutional editors offered by the extension service of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (FL)

Discusses the various arrangements whereby aspiring technical writers and editors receive training and work experience within the United States federal government. (RL)

Describes procedures involved in selecting and training staff members of a high school literary magazine and in preparing the magazine for publication. (GT)

Tells how data from readership surveys have been combined to create a decision model that provides newspaper editors with a systematic procedure for evaluating standard newspaper features; reports on a study that examined one set of subjective decisions a researcher is faced with when using the decision model. (GT)

Reviews typical software testing activities and then compares those activities to technical editing activities. Shows that by providing quality assurance through content editing, technical editors add value to the information development process and help give users the quality content they deserve. Concludes that product information must go…

Maintains that good news reporting requires hard work, careful research, and even more careful verification. Notes that there is nothing old fashioned about news reporting, except that, like fine antiques, good news reporting in scholastic publications is hard to find. (RS)

Discusses changes in the nature of an editor's work, resulting from computers, contract work, competition with computers, and forced collaboration. (SR)

Presents an author's frustrations with poor editing in the form of advice from an editor who has been edited. Discusses deciding what to change, grammar and style, and knowing the audience and the author. (RS)

Finds that subjects were less able to detect errors in self-generated essays than in unfamiliar other-generated essays but were better able to detect errors in familiar other-generated essays than in unfamiliar ones. Finds also that the disadvantage for proofreading self-generated text is a by-product of extreme familiarity. (RS)

Discusses the overuse of capital letters in technical writing. (SR)

Presents a list of general qualities that might turn a good yearbook into a great one. Discusses photojournalism, visual elements, editing concerns, personalized coverage, and broad general concerns. (SR)

Discusses problems in a piece of technical writing which is very well written but has extra words and overly long sentences. (SR)