STC Technical Editing SIG Editors' Exchange 2024 Mini-Conference

Technical editing, regardless of how the discipline is defined, is first and foremost reader advocacy—be it for documentation clarity, accuracy, relevance, or accessibility.

The goal of the STC Technical Editing SIG (TESIG) is to provide its members with high quality information about editing processes and best practices, as well as resources that demonstrate the value of editing and editors in an organization.

To meet this goal, we are happy to invite you to the EdEx24 mini-conference, which is dedicated to the field of technical editing and to technical editing practitioners. Based on the success of our previous EdEx conferences, we feel sure that you will find this mini-conference valuable and relevant.

The price of the tickets is for the entire mini-conference, and attendees can join at any time. All sessions will be recorded, and the recordings and slides will be made available to attendees after the mini-conference.

E dEx24 attendees who are STC members can earn up to 2 CEUs for the full half-day program. For credit, submit a request for CEUs to [email protected].

Creating AI layers to implement your editing best practices can improve quality, enforce standards, AND reduce tedium! We’ll demonstrate processes for “linting” incoming submissions and improving existing content, plus discuss how we tackled the problem of prompt engineering. Even if you’re not ready to rock the APIs and Automate All the Things, if you can copy & paste, we’ll show you how to get real value out of the AI.

Even the best writers have a difficult time editing their own work—it’s science. Whether you use what you learn in this presentation to edit your own work or share them with your writing team, these tips will help writers catch minor mistakes and awkward constructions in their writing before someone else does.

This is a dedicated TechComm student slot, and its point is to both give seasoned TechEds a possible new look at a topic and to give TechEd students a chance to work on their presentation and topic skills.
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Jayme is a Senior Technical Writer and team lead with over 30 years of diverse experience across the industry. At GitHub, she is integrating documentation strategy with cutting-edge AI workflows to reduce tedium, improve quality, and generally do more with less. She is excited to share her team's practical, real-world implementations that anyone can build from.

Dana is a content strategy and information architecture consultant with over 15 years experience as a technical writer in the software industry and a background in design.

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