For the first time, the stories of the women who built the profession of technical communication have been brought together. These women helped shape how the world understands technology.
Spanning fifty years of innovation, from typewriters to personal computers to smartphones, these first-hand stories reveal how women in technical communication carved out careers, led change, and defined a field in constant motion.
Told in their own words, this anthology celebrates the pioneers who turned communication into a bridge between people and technology.
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Women in Technical Communication
From typewriters to touchscreens: a history by the women who did the work
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Women in Technical Communication
From typewriters to touchscreens: a history by the women who did the work
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Table of contents
- Women in Technical Communication — Front Cover
- Inside cover
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. Rahel Anne Bailie: The Only Constant Has Been Change
- Chapter 2. Carol Barnum: 45 Years in About 2000 Words
- Chapter 3. Mollye Barrett: Pathfinding
- Chapter 4. Paula R. Berger: How MIT Led Me to Technical Communication
- Chapter 5. Alisa Bonsignore: Tech Comm in the Time of Dotcoms
- Chapter 6. Rhonda Bracey: A Lifetime Working with Words
- Chapter 7. Katherine (Kit) Brown-Hoekstra: Curiosity, Catastrophes, and Content Strategy
- Chapter 8. Sharon Burton: No Straight Lines Make up My Life
- Chapter 9. Patricia Carmel: This TC Has Left the Building
- Chapter 10. Jennifer Condon: Reliable Systems Require Reliable Content
- Chapter 11. Amanda Cross: Leaning Out to Get a Better View
- Chapter 12. Jackie Damrau: My Technical Communication Journey
- Chapter 13. Melanie Denise Anderson Davis: Everything Old is New AgAIn
- Chapter 14. Sandhya Devasani: A Career Written from the Heart
- Chapter 15. Jacqueline Emanuele: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Tech
- Chapter 16. Beth Favini: Grit, Curiosity, and Good Fortune
- Chapter 17. Jamie Meade Fix: The Accidental Tech Writer
- Chapter 18. Barbara A. Giammona: Adjusting to the Changes
- Chapter 19. Jodie Gilmore: Active Voice, Active Mind
- Chapter 20. Sarah K.Gunning, PhD: Funding the Revolution
- Chapter 21. JoAnn T. Hackos: Early Advocate for Technical Information Development Management
- Chapter 22. Beth Haggerty: Just Saying It
- Chapter 23. Bee Hanson: Living the History of Our Profession
- Chapter 24. Radhika Hari: An un-Hari-ed Review of a Career
- Chapter 25. Brenda Huettner: Finding and Re-Finding My Purpose
- Chapter 26. Caroline Jarrett: Forms Are Also Technical Communication
- Chapter 27. Sajitha Jayaprakash: My Technical Writing Journey
- Chapter 28. Mersedeh Jorjani: Once in a Lifetime
- Chapter 29. Debra W. Kahn: Tag Along
- Chapter 30. Sneha Khanwelkar: Documenting Success
- Chapter 31. Victoria (Vici) Koster-Lenhardt: Everything Begins by Showing Up
- Chapter 32. Loria Kutch: From Armpit to Apex
- Chapter 33. Cheryl Landes: My Unconventional Journey as a Technical Communicator
- Chapter 34. Joan Lasselle: There at the Beginning
- Chapter 35. Katarzyna Lech: Tomorrow’s Tech Comm
- Chapter 36. Anne Lustig-Picus: TC
- Chapter 37. Julie MacAller: From Mainframes to AI
- Chapter 38. C. Blaise Mitsutama: Adventures in Technical Writer Land
- Chapter 39. Suzanna Morris: Suzanna’s Triumphs and Tribulations as a Technical Writer
- Chapter 40. Randee Napp: Let Me Talk to Someone Who Knows Something
- Chapter 41. Traci Nathans-Kelly: Girls Don’t Need Physics
- Chapter 42. Hanna Nelson: From troff to AsciiDoc
- Chapter 43. Kristy Lantz Newport: From Accidental Technical Communicator to Veteran Guided-User Software Experience Director
- Chapter 44. Laura A. Palmer: It’s in the Syllabus
- Chapter 45. Aruna Panangipally: An Indian Technical Writing Pioneer
- Chapter 46. Kamala Raghunath: A Journey Through Changing Technology and Purpose
- Chapter 47. Judy Ramey: An Accidental Career
- Chapter 48. Janice (Ginny) Redish: Tech Comm = Plain Language = UX
- Chapter 49. Kersten Richter: Tech Writing in the 2000s
- Chapter 50. Paula Robertson: Tech Comm Reminiscence
- Chapter 51. Ann Rockley: Mother of Content Strategy
- Chapter 52. Stephanie Rosenbaum: My 60 Years in Technical Communication
- Chapter 53. Stefanie Rosenberg: A Chance Encounter
- Chapter 54. Suzanne Rubinstein: I Write What Nobody Wants to Read
- Chapter 55. Yvonne Wade Sanchez: What Do You Do for a Living
- Chapter 56. Karen Schriver: Following the Breadcrumbs of Words and Images
- Chapter 57. Patricia Shore: The Accidental Technical Writer
- Chapter 58. Cynthia Smith: “No Plan” Turned Out to Be a Great Plan
- Chapter 59. Annette Sohor: Engineering Words
- Chapter 60. Sara Stein: Hi-Tech Mum in Toggle Mode
- Chapter 61. Hanna Heinonen and Laura Katajisto: Tytti Suojanen
- Chapter 62. Amber Swope: More than Words
- Chapter 63. Susan Tacker: Life’s Not Linear
- Chapter 64. Thea Teich: Navigating to a Landing Zone
- Chapter 65. Joy Valentine: From Your Sigma Great Aunt
- Chapter 66. Danielle M. Villegas: Wired for Change
- Chapter 67. Leigh W. White: Even a Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut
- Chapter 68. Miriam F. Williams: Embracing Change
- Chapter 69. Dana Worley: A Path of Organic Growth to a Long-Term Successful Career
- Bibliography
- Index
- Colophon
- Back cover
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