Where to find training?

STC has closed in local area

Tech writing teachers? Parkland maybe? Sandra may know people over in Parkland’s writing program

Special considerations here

Sandra: There are a lot of non-native English speakers in Engineering; make sure to use clear straightforward sentence structure.

What can we do?

Is there a point of creating a new STC branch? Expensive, national organization, easier to do it ourselves without massive overhead infrastructure

Brownbag/eat-and-talk for furthering discussions of “How-To’s”, providing a more in-depth, up close look at techniques

Documentation jam

Topics:

• Audience Analysis
• Working Documentation into the development process
• Documentation Specialist’s toolkit (software and processes that we use that are successful)

Training timelines

• September training – Dena for Speed Writing
• October training  – Steph for Audience Analysis
• November training – Dena – Images and when/how to use them
• December training – Steph and Alison for “You”-Centered Writing
• January training – Cindy for “Don’t Put off Until Tomorrow” – guest panel of developers

Dena will contact Craig Jackson and Kristin Cordova to see if we can present at Caffeine Breaks or IT Pro Forum events.