By Yehoshua Paul “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”—Isaac Asimov There are two types of people who know everything: technical communicators and science fiction writers. Technical communicators know how to gather all the information...
By Dr. Liz Herman | STC Associate Fellow Earlier this year, three organizations in the Washington, DC, area held events that were ideal for...
By Nithya Krishnan Consider a regular morning at work. You’ve been in the job long enough to perform both simple and complex tasks each day. You’ve...
By Sara Stein Over the past decade or two, documentation has moved from a linear sequence in PDFs to an information space in HTML, according to Lev...
By Michelle Corbin | STC Senior Member Hi, my name’s Michelle. I’m a technical editor, and I’m a descriptivist. Most of you right now are likely...
By Thomas Barker | STC Fellow In this column, I’ll look back to an early academic conversation about personas and reader analysis. It’s sometimes...
By Cruce Saunders Each of us in technical communication has tremendous career options and opportunities before us that didn’t exist a decade ago. For...
By Jack Molisani | STC Fellow I grew up in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and moved back there five years ago to help my aging parents. My mom developed...
