Re: Looking for classes in indexing

[Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

   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
   [1]https://www.asindexing.org/category/webinars/.
   The Portland chapter of ASI lists a bunch of non-ASI indexing courses:
   [2]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
   [3]http://www.backwordsindexing.com/Novice/NoviceNotes.html.
   And my last list on this listicles reply:
   [4]https://indexstudents.wordpress.com/education/ - lots of training
   and all sorts of resources.
   (Yes, I like the subject of indexing!)
   HTH,
   -Monique

References

   1. https://www.asindexing.org/category/webinars/
   2. http://pnwasi.org/wp/?page_id=141
   3. http://www.backwordsindexing.com/Novice/NoviceNotes.html
   4. https://indexstudents.wordpress.com/education/
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