April’s Intercom theme is grand hardware documentation. It was a pleasure to work with guest editor Rick Lippincott on the topic. Rick is an STC Associate Fellow, a newly elected member of the STC Nominating Committee, and former president of the New England Chapter. He has been writing about grand hardware (or as he likes to call it, “heavy metal”) for over 30 years in such fields as aerospace, ion implantation, high-energy X-ray, and telecommunications. He is currently working at Analogic Corporation in Peabody, MA. Rick has a BS in journalism from Ohio University and an MS in technical writing from RPI. He is the author of the Squadron/Signal book C-5 Galaxy in Action. He is often seen around the STC Summit snapping photos of everyone he can.
Rick has brought us three “heavy metal” articles concerning different aspects of writing documentation for “big things,” like airplanes, which he details in his editorial.
Other articles in the issue include “Writing Technical Content in English for Nonnative English Speakers” by Lisa Parys and an in-depth review of MadCap Flare 12 by Paul Pehrson. This issue also introduces a new column on Metrics by Mark Lewis and a Standard Deviation column by Ray Gallon, and a Witful Thinking humor piece by Geoff Hart.
In the Society Pages, CEO Chris Lyons and President Bernard Aschwanden announce the publication of STC’s 2015 Year in Review, and local chapter leaders have written about fun things to do in California while attending the Summit.
The STC Summit is fast approaching. I hope I will see you there.
