Re: Looking for classes in indexing

[Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I did search for the article, thank you.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 4:36 PM, <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net> wrote:

> BTW, if youâre an STC member and are looking for the article, I recommend
> searching (rather than using their index:-). The Intercom archive page for
> 2012 has the 2011 December issue at the link that probably should be the
> 2012 October issue. But, if you search for the article, you will find an
> html version.
>
> Best regards,
> Richard
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> > On Jul 25, 2018, at 12:54, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Monique! The STC site had the Intercom article you referenced. I
> am
> > reading it now. :)
> >
> > I was contacted offlist by one of the people at ASI who crafted that
> > agreement with STC. They're looking into it for me. It's entirely
> possible
> > the information is still on the site and I was unable to find it using
> > Google search (the irony, it burns!).
> >
> > I'll be trawling through the other resources you mentioned. And I've
> > purchased the Indexing Books referenced in an earlier email.
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Monique Semp <
> monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Really old, but I have printout of an article from the October 2012 STC
> >> Intercom magazine that I found quite useful: The Top 10 Indexing Errors
> >> Made by Technical Writers, by Lorne Griffith. I imagine it wouldn't be
> too
> >> hard to find online. (And if it is, you can ping me and I'd be happy to
> >> scan it and send the PDF.)
> >>
> >> And I second Lin's comments around the idea that digital search does not
> >> take the place of a good, human-produced index. For example, if the text
> >> says, "remove", but I search for "delete", I'll never find it. But in a
> >> manually-produced index, I'd expect to see an entry for "delete" that
> says,
> >> "see remove".
> >>
> >> I was a member of ASI for many years even though, like Lin, the only
> >> things I indexed were tech docs that I wrote. But I thought of doing
> more
> >> (until I found how low the pay was for how much work it would take to
> write
> >> a really excellent, vs. mediocre, index), and I liked the erudite
> >> discussions among the REAL indexers.
> >>
> >> It is unfortunate that ASI seems to require membership to take their
> >> courses. Maybe a personal note to them to ask for an exception might
> work?
> >> I did look at their webinars page, and those seem generally available to
> >> non-members, although the topics are mostly pretty narrowly focused to a
> >> given tool or a given indexing focus. See https://www.asindexing.org/
> >> category/webinars/.
> >>
> >> The Portland chapter of ASI lists a bunch of non-ASI indexing courses:
> >> http://pnwasi.org/wp/?page_id=141. Perhaps other chapters (don't recall
> >> where you are, so not sure if there's an active chapter near you) have
> >> similar lists of resources.
> >>
> >> And here's a nice list of resources, including email discussion lists,
> but
> >> a lot of it is geared to people wanting to have their own indexing
> >> business. But of course, the email discussion lists would be useful for
> all
> >> indexers. See http://www.backwordsindexing.com/Novice/NoviceNotes.html.
> >>
> >> And my last list on this listicles reply: https://indexstudents.
> >> wordpress.com/education/ - lots of training and all sorts of resources.
> >>
> >> (Yes, I like the subject of indexing!)
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >> -Monique
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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