Editing Resources

Reading List

Each of these sites has a collection of resources covering style guides, books, courses and professional organizations.

• Jean Hollis Weber’s Technical Editors’ Eyrie
• The Mark Allen Editorial website has FAQs and a list of tools.
• Arrant pedantry links out to other editing blogs and resources, plus a shop to buy linguistic t-shirts and merch!
• The two editors from The Editing Podcast both have amazing lists of resources:
  • Louise Harnby
  • Denise Cowl
• Iva Cheung’s blog - editing cartoons yes!
• Draft.dev's blog has great learning resources. Check out their Field Guide to Technical Editing
• Right Touch Editing has some wonderful checklists and cheat sheets.
• Rabbit with a red pen has writing, editing, and conscious language resources.
• That White Paper Guy has a great book list and links to other resources.

Listen

• OSP Podcast Communicate, Connect, Grow
• The Editing Podcast
• The Confident Freelance Editor
• Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
• Better Done than Perfect podcast:
  • Episode with Kieran Tie How to edit content
  • Episode with Karl Hughes Producing technical content
• Tom Johnson has a round-up of Tech Comm podcasts
• Check out any other tech podcasts you can find in DevRel, tech, community building, and open source.

Watch

• TC Camp Green Room 42's Why Do We Need an Editor on the Team?
• Amruta Ranade's Technical Editing Checklist from Part 4 of the 'How I Write Technical Documents' series

Professional organizations

I am a member of:

• The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), an Australian-based organization.
• The Australian Society for Technical Communication
• The Write the Docs global community

Other editing organizations

• Editorial freelancers association
• Editors Canada
• ACEs
• Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
• Technical Editing SIG - a Special Interest Group of the Society for Technical Communication