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Resume of Janis Ramey
email: ramey@technical-writing.net
More than 25 years as an independent technical writer
Associate Fellow, Society for Technical Communication
Services Offered
- Technical writing, editing, documentation planning, production
management, and consulting.
- Seminars and courses about technical writing.
- Also graphics, design, printing, publishing, word processing,
website management.
Typical Projects
Software manuals, maintenance and installation service manuals,
operating manuals, product information, proposals, reports, technical
catalogs, technical newsletters, training materials, procedures,
website content pages, papers and presentations, on-line documentation.
List of projects
Education
MA, English, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
PA
BS, Technical Writing and Editing, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh PA.
Teaching Experience
University of Pittsburgh, Science Writing
Chatham College, Technical Writing for the Women in Science
program sponsored by the National Science Foundation
In-house courses and seminars for many organizations.
List of Seminars, workshops,
and courses by Janis Ramey
Awards
- Four awards in the
2004 competitions sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chapter of the
Society for Technical Communication.
- Distinguished Chapter Service Award, Society for Technical
Communication, 2000
other awards
Recent Presentations
- Smart Job Searching - Second Year of STC WorkQuest™,
Society for Technical Communication annual meeting, Baltimore
MD, May 2004
- High-Tech Publications Need Old-Fashioned Editing, IPCC/SIGDOC
2000, Cambridge, MA.
- Simple Formula for Writing Instructions, Practical
Conference on Communication, Knoxville, TN.
- Making it Shine … Revising your draft, seminar
for technical people, Pittsburgh, sponsored by the Society for
Technical Communication.
- Technical writing opportunities for computer science majors,
Guest instructor, technical writing class, Indiana University
of Pennsylvania.
- Value of Technical Writing, program moderator, Society
for Technical Communication, Pittsburgh Chapter meeting program.
- Editing, panel member, Society for Technical Communication,
Pittsburgh Chapter meeting program.
- The Road to SWOB: Running a Technical Business in a Man's
World, Quiz Club.
- Smart Job Searching: A report on a support group for technical
writers looking for work, Society for Technical Communication,
Region 4 Conference, Columbus OH, Nov. 2002
Recent Publications
- Winner or Loser?
Editing Can Make the Difference, Pittsburgh Blue
Pencil, newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication
- Effective
Technical Letters, InterCom, magazine of the Society
for Technical Communication
- Practical
Reports for Today's Legal Nurse Consultants, Journal
of Legal Nurse Consulting, American Association of Legal Nurse
Consultants, in review for publication.
- How to Work
with a Designer, InterCom, magazine of the society for
Technical Communication
- Delivering Technical Information on an Intranet, InterCom,
magazine of the Society for Technical Communication
- Then and Now,
article about changes in technical writing, Pittsburgh Blue Pencil,
newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication
And a chapter in a book -- How
to write a useful abstract, chapter in Business Writing,
Dr. P. P. Laisram editor, ICFAI University, ICFAI Press, Hyderabad,
India, 2004
List of clients
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Articles about technical
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