Talk:Levels of edit

Listing the levels of edit
"Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) developed five levels of edit" it would be nice if they were listed in the article. Kmacdowe (talk) 21:36, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Technical and Professional Communication
— Assignment last updated by CMarch02 (talk) 21:05, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Additional references and resources
I am adding more references and sources to this article. The lead has no references, and there are only ten references in the article. Some of these sources are not scholarly, so I'd like to pivot away from their use. Additionally, the references section is mislabelled as 'endnotes.' I will be renaming some of the sections to better reflect their content.

Here are some of the sources I am adding, all of which are scholarly and from the Technical and Professional Communication discipline:

Ament, Kurt. “Appendix A. The Levels of Edit.” Dysfunctional Documents, Levels of Edit, 2021.

Anderson, S.L., Campbell, C.P., Hindle, N., Price, J. and Scasny, R. (2015). Editing a Web Site: Extending the Levels of Edit. In Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions, D.F. Beer (Ed.). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119134633.ch75

Buehler, Mary Fran. “Controlled Flexibility in Technical Editing: The Levels-of-Edit Concept at JPL.” Technical Communication, vol. 24, no. 1, 1977, pp. 1–4. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43087234. Accessed 9 Nov. 2023.

Buehler, Mary Fran. “Defining Terms in Technical Editing: The Levels of Edit as a Model.” Technical Communication, vol. 28, no. 4, 1981, pp. 10–15. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43094307. Accessed 9 Nov. 2023.

Prono, J, DeLanoy, M, Deupree, R, Skiby, J, and Thompson, B. Developing new levels of edit. United States: N. p., 1998. Web. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/663204

Soderston, Candace. “The Usability Edit: A New Level.” Technical Communication 32 (1985): 16-18. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED261386

KLHates (talk) 18:31, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Summary of Edits - KLHates
Below is a summary of the edits I have made to this article, and suggestions for how it could be expanded and improved in the future.

My edits

- Before I edited the article, the levels of edit were written about as if they are only modified by the general public; I added information about how the levels of edit are written about scholarly and are academic.

- Copy editing throughout the entire article. Mostly splitting long and clarifying unclear sentences, changing punctuation, or replacing words.

- Linked to multiple other Wikipedia articles and added a section for further reading.

- Added information about the levels of edit and its connection to UX and usability studies.

- Added more information to 'other variations' section about how the levels of edit have been used.

- Added more historical context of where the levels are from (JPL) and how they have developed since.

Suggestions to expand and improve

- Another user could add more about the levels of edit in book editing/publishing, in journalism, in technical documentation (API documentations, etc), and usability studies. These could be an entire other section of the article.

- There could be a section about DEI concerns with the levels of edit. I was not able to find scholarly (or any) literature on this, but that could be out there and I am unaware of it.

KLHates (talk) 20:47, 18 December 2023 (UTC)