Currents 2002 Proceedings

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Career Development

Why Technical Writers Are More Qualified to Write Marketing Materials Than They Think
Beth Ubele

Marketing Communications: Yes, You Can Do It!
Thea Teich

Can You Help Us Sell It? A Crash Course in Marketing Writing for Technical Communicators
Jack Massa

Management

Living in Hiding: Technical Communicators and Their Hidden Value
Suzanna Laurent

Masters Degrees for Technical Communicators
Marjorie Davis

Mentoring Technical Communicators
Denise Lee

I’m Going to Work With You: Applying Team Dynamic Principles to Your Work Environment
Mirhonda Studevant

Tools and Technology

From Desktop to Palmtop: Creating Usable Online Documents for Wireless and Handheld Devices
George Hayhoe

Flyers In an Hour
Mickey Wadia

JavaScript 101: JavaScript for Writers and Trainers
Scott DeLoach

What Every Knowledge Worker Should Know About Metadata
Gwen Thomas

Writing and Editing

Creating a Custom Style Guide
Leigh Richardson

Power of Positive Editing
Pam Migneault

Indexing Large Projects
Denise Kadilak

Single Sourcing and Collaborative Authoring using AuthorIT
Joe DeWitte

Usability and Instructional Design

Methods of Organizing the Instructional Document
Gerald Cohen

The Role of Instruction Design in WBT for Learning Transfer
Latha Reddy

Asking the Right Questions During a Site Visit Interview
Rob Houser