Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Sam Houston State University/Technical Editing and Style (Fall)

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Catalog description: Students study advanced techniques of composing, editing, and refining documents. Students analyze and generate prose for a variety of professional scenarios; additionally, students learn to edit documents using print and digital copy-marking techniques.

Additional information: Editing is very much a skill, so the course is based around you completing significant practice with the craft, in the form of challenges and practice with each other and with clients. However, “editing and style” as a subject of study is also concerned with the bigger picture of rhetorical appropriateness and social justice. Your style choices and line editing choices can have much larger impacts than the physical change you make to a manuscript. Studying how to identify rhetorical appropriateness and improving what’s already in the source documents you edit is a process that I like to think of through Gestalt theory—the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.