About me
— Publications by Jean Hollis Weber
About technical editing
— Beyond copy-editing: the editor-writer relationship
— Choosing and using a technical writer
— Classifying editorial tasks
— Different ways of working
— Do editors focus on the wrong things?
— Escape from the grammar trap
— Ethics in scientific and technical communication
— Finding telecommuting work
— How long does editing take?
— Marketing your remote editorial services
— Taming a telecommuting team
— Taming a telecommuting team (v.2)
— Technical editors’ responsibilities
— The role of the editor in the technical writing team
— Time zones can be your friend
— What is substantive editing?
— Who needs a technical editor?
— Who needs a technical writer?
— Working with a technical editor
Books
— Books: Graphics & visual communication
— Books: Indexing
— Books: Management, consulting, teleworking, getting started
— Books: Negotiation and workplace relationships
— Books: Operating systems
— Books: Technical editing and style guides
— Books: Technical writing
— Books: Tools for technical writers and editors
— Books: Website and online help design
— Books: Website coding (HTML, CSS, etc.)
How to
— Alternatives to the paragraph
— An example of substantive editing
— Audience and document analysis
— Checkadding
— Choosing and using help topics
— Deciding what needs to be done
— Developing a Departmental Style Guide
— Editing an index
— Editing for an international audience
— Editing glossaries
— Editing illustrations
— Editing online materials
— Editing procedures and instructions
— Editing reports and proposals
— Editing single-sourced projects
— Editing tables
— Editing tables of data
— Editing tips
— Editing Web sites
— Gender-neutral technical writing
— Hints for developing a table of contents
— Parts of a typical statistical table
— Planning an online help project
— Sample editing checklist
— Stressing what is important in a sentence
— Terminology and spelling for Web-related concepts
— Use cases” and “user scenarios” explained
— Use of hyphens
— Using style sheets
— What’s wrong with this procedure – answers
— What’s wrong with this procedure?
— Words in several varieties of English
— Working electronically
Links
— Discussion groups, newsletters, and related websites
— FrameMaker tools and resources
— Grammar, punctuation, spelling
— Help authoring tools
— Microsoft Word information sources
— Resources for editors and writers of websites
— Resources for technical editors in Australia
— Screen capture and graphics tools for Windows systems
