Monthly Archives: December, 2012
On the Job with Kristi Arntzen
Kristi Arntzen gets paid to watch football and baseball games. Actually, as a Communication Access Realtime Transcriber (CART), she gets paid to listen to the games and create the closed-captioning that enables hearing-challenged viewers to follow the action on TV. After graduating with an English major in 1999, Arntzen decided that she didn’t want to [...]
Temple students lead county schools in writing test improvement
High school students in Carroll County Schools improved their scores overall on the Georgia High School Writing Test this year, with the percentage of students meeting the test’s standard increasing by 3 percentage points. The improvement raised the system’s passing percentage up to 94.7 percent, up from 91.5 percent in 2011, with 867 county students [...]
Ten Questions for Stafford Technical Center’s Lyle Jepson
Lyle Jepson is the director of Stafford Technical Center. We asked him 10 questions about his job. What attracted you to the job at the Stafford Technical Center from your career in more traditional education? What makes technical education so exciting is that it provides practical application of abstract academic concepts. Learning becomes immediate and [...]
Technical Editor
Bachelor’s in English, journalism, technical communications, or related field Minimum of one year of technical editing or technical writing experience Excellent grasp of spelling, grammar, and punctuation rules and style conventions for published materials Strong verbal and written communication skills Ability to work collaboratively on team projects and establish positive working relationships Ability to work [...]
How to Publish Your Book: Guy Kawasaki’s Blueprint
After reading APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch, my first reaction was, “Dammit, Guy, I finally get my own book published via the old-fashioned publisher route and barely 12 months later you show everyone how simple it can be to publish your own book!” My second [...]
Technical Writing for Non-Native English Speakers – iOS Reference eBook
eBook that provides a framework for ESL authors to write professional documentation. An authoritative guide, its goal is to help authors to write consistent documentation, so that both technical experts and end users can benefit from common structures and conventions in written manuals and documents. The 203-page book includes 12 Chapters, 7 Appendices, and a [...]
Technical Writer – $65000 to $70000
- CBD location – $65,000 to $70,000 salary – IT focused technical writing role – Client facing, commercial focus This opportunity will see you working as part of a team of Technical Writers in a client facing role supporting an enterprise sized environment. This position could see you heavily involved in documenting user guides, proposal [...]