CREATIVITY IN EDITING

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DISCOVERING TECHNICOLOR
IN A SEEMINGLY BLACK AND WHITE PROFESSION
 Before entering the TPC program, I believed…

• Technical and Professional Communication was an area

WHAT IS solely for those wanting to be technical writers for
TECHNICAL scientifically-geared companies, or editors for various
&PROFESSIONAL publications, focusing on structure and grammar.
COMMUNICATION AND
WHAT CAN YOU DO • I did not consider the design components (including
WITH IT? document, graphic, and web design), the international
relations implications of the field, or how it branches into
education, public relations, marketing sectors, and
beyond.
 - 2012 PERSPECTIVE -

“ I’M AN EDITOR BECAUSE I’M NOT CREATIVE.

I STRUGGLE COMING UP WITH MY OWN
IDEAS, BUT HELPING OTHERS STRENGTHEN
THEIR IDEAS COMES EASILY. ”
 - 2018 PERSPECTIVE -

“ I’M A CONFIDENT EDITOR. I AM CREATIVE, AND

I USE MY EDITING SKILLS TO CREATIVELY
STRENGTHEN PROJECTS
IN BOTH CONTENT AND FORM. ”
 - CONTRIBUTING COURSES -

Editing-Specific Courses Additional Courses (for Context)

• Copyediting • Cultural Issues in TPC
• Editing as Management • Ethical Issues in TPC
• Technical Editing and Production • Training in TPC
• Technical Writing • UX Design
COPYEDITING
|CREATIVE CONTENT|

Developmental
Proofreading Line Editing Editing
EDITING AS MANAGEMENT
|CREATIVE STRUCTURE|

Defending Technical & Advocating for the Creating structure for a

Professional inclusion of a Technical new department from
Communication as a Communications preliminary planning to
valued field department in an execution
existing organization
TECHNICAL EDITING AND PRODUCTION
|CREATIVE STYLE|

Cohesion across Font selection Color selection Incorporation of

platforms graphics
TECHNICAL WRITING
|CREATIVE MEDIUM|

PRINT VS. DIGITAL VISUAL VS. AUDIO

CULTURAL ISSUES IN
TECHNICAL & PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
|CREATIVE LANGUAGE|

Ethnicity Socioeconomic Orientation (Dis)ability

status
ETHICAL ISSUES IN
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
|CREATIVE INTEGRITY|

Steven Katz,
The Ethic of Expediency
TRAINING IN
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
|CREATIVE STRATEGY|

COURSE DESIGN
UX DESIGN
|CREATIVE PERSPECTIVE|
PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
PROJECTS WITH GOOD PEOPLE DIGITAL
- FEATURING BEST-SELLING AUTHORS AND TELEVISION PERSONALITIES -

Serving their clients, such as…

• Nir Eyal
The Hooked Online Workshop
• Eiven & Eve Kilcher
Homesteading Anywhere (from Alaska: The Last
Frontier)
• Gretchen Rubin
The Four Tendencies Workshop
• Rachel Macy Stafford
Soul Shift
 Now having completed the TPC program, I know…

• TPC is a team of professional collaborators; we are

people who are easily adaptable, and open to progress
and change; we are fluent in technology and languages
WHAT IS (even if it is only the English language); we are
TECHNICAL communicators, both visually and verbally.
&PROFESSIONAL
COMMUNICATION AND • TPC is composed of passionate people eager to help
WHAT CAN YOU DO those within our field and outside of our field.
WITH IT?
• We can be writers, editors, educators, web designers,
public relations representatives, marketing agents,
graphic designers, public servants—a list that merely
scrapes the surface of our potential.