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Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators On and Off the Job (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication)

By Gerald J. Savage, Dale L. Sullivan, Sam Dragga

ISBN-10: 0-205-32106-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-205-32106-3What's this?

Published by Longman

© 2001

Pub. Date: Nov 9, 2000

Format: Paper

Table of Contents



Preface.

I.INITIATION STORIES.

Rosalie Dwyer, I'm a Nibbie: The Tale of an Object-Oriented GUI Developer.

Brad Connatser, The Great Pyramid War.

Michael Asay, Glimpse into Reality.

Kendra Potts, My Entry Level Life.

Melissa Alton, First Time Out.

Alina Rutten, How I Became a Goddess.

Beth Lee, A Job Like a Tattoo.

Carol Hoeniges, It's Not Mark Twain's River Anymore.

II.THE PROCESS.

Rahel Anne Bailie, Three Months, Three Pages.

Geoff Hart, Conquering the Cubicle Syndrome.

Mark Bloom, Try and Try Again: The Story of a Software Project.

Tim Casady, Tech Writing and the Art of Laziness.

Julie S. Hile, I've Been Working on the Railroad: Re-Vision at BNP Railway.

Shawn S. Staley, Daze at the Round Table.

Elna R. Tymes, Diary of a Tech Writer.

Steven Jong, Samurai Review.

Rochelle Gidonian, Thumbnails.

III.LIFE ON AND BEYOND THE JOB.

Christine Pellar-Kosbar, What a Life.

L.M. Hayes, It Isn't What You Write That Makes You a Tech Writer: A Love Story.

Jerry Kenney, Fluff.

Reva Rasmusson, Madame Mao in the Midwest.

Lenore Weiss, Stranger in Paradigm.

Dale L. Sullivan, Afterword: Talking to the People Who Know.

Further Reading on Narratives.

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