Editing a web site: Extending the levels of edit

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-57

  Anderson, Steven L ^a   Campbell, Charles P ^a,b   Hindle, Nancy ^a   Price, Jonathan ^a   Scasny, Randall ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

Levels of Edit; Technical editing; Web editors; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; FILE EDITORS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TEXTBOOKS;

LEVELS OF EDIT; TECHNICAL EDITING; WEB EDITORS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 0032027573     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.661630     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. The "before" version at the site: 〈http://www.cramer.nmt.edu/Fall95〉. The edited version: 〈http://www.cramer.nmt.edu〉Fall 96. The Fall 1997 editing class, capitalizing on the experience set forth in this article, has further refined the site: (28 Jan, 98)〈http://www.cramer.nmt.edu/ntc 2021〉.
2. C. Campbell, Syllabus: TC 202, "Elements of Editing" 〈http://www. cramer.nmt.edu∼cpc/edit/〉 (28 Jan. 98).
3. R. Van Buren and M. F. Buehler, The Levels of Edit, 2nd ed. Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Lab., 1980. In a July 1993 letter to Campbell, Buehler wrote, "I am a little concerned that people will think they have to use the Levels of Edit just as we did...People have been adapting the Levels of Edit for many years...and this is what we at JPL have encouraged people to do from the beginning."
4. D. Samson, Editing Technical Writing. New York: Oxford, 1993.
5. J. Prono, "Changing from four to three levels of edit at Los Alamos National Laboratory," presentation for STC Kachina Chapter, Jan. 11, 1997.
6. D. S. Kaufer and B. S. Butler, Rhetoric and the Arts of Design. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.
7. For more information on using SGML see C. F. Goldfarb, The SGML Handbook, Y. Rubinsky, Ed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990; see also the SGML Web Page: 〈http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html〉 (28 Jan. 90).
8. The DTD of HTML 3.2 was created and stored online, 〈http://www.w3.org〉:
9. the HTML 3.2 Reference Specification: 〈http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32.html〉 (28 Jan. 98).
10. P. J. Lynch and S. Horton, "The Yale CAIM Style Guide," 2nd ed.: [Online]. Available HTTP: 〈http:/info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/〉 (28 Jan. 98).
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12. Apple Web Design Guide: 〈http://applenet.apple.com/hi/web/intro.html〉 (30 Oct. 97).
13. Sun style guide: 〈http://www.sun.com/styleguide/〉 (30 Oct. 97).
14. Linklint: 〈http://www.goldwarp.com/bowlin/linklint/〉 (30 Oct. 97).
15. Net Mechanic: 〈http://www.netmechanic.com〉 (30 Oct. 97).
16. J. Clark: 〈http://www.jclark.com〉 (30 Oct. 97).
17. HTML Validation Tools site: 〈http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/neilb/weblint/ validation.html〉.
18. See also Yahoo's section on HTML validation: 〈http://www. yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/information_and_documentation/ data_formats/html/〉 (30 Oct. 97).