In my previous post, I interviewed Diane Fleming who had completed a graduate degree in technical writing later in her career. Today’s interview is with Melissa Burpo, who has completed the coursework and internship portions of the graduate program but still needs to write up her internship report (an equivalent assignment to a master’s thesis) […]
Should I get a graduate degree in technical writing? Interviews with those who have
It’s no secret that I have a masters degree in technical and scientific communication from Miami University. With all the hype about Web 2.0, outsourcing, crowdsourcing, and social media like wikis, an interesting question that I get asked occasionally is, “should I get a graduate degree in technical writing?” I’ve had quite a few interesting […]
Initial review of AuthorIT
I’m now writing in an AuthorIT environment. My first learning task is to find out the proper pronunciation, is it Author Eye Tee? Or Author It? Let’s see what wikipedia has to say about AuthorIT. In their article, they consistently refer to the product as Author-it, so I would suppose the second pronunciation I proposed […]