Technical Editing and Writing in the Future: What New Technologies Will Mean  

We're awash in technological innovation: what used to be difficult and expensive (e.g., color printing, presentation video, display-math typesetting) has become easy, relatively cheap, and inevitable for even modest publications environments. What's a technical communicator to do when the communication tools themselves are technically . . . intriguing? Do the new technologies make technical communicators more effective or merely irrelevant? The three presentations described below assume 'more effective,' but they take different cuts at the issue, reflecting three different approaches and three levels of success in trying to get a handle on new communication tools.

Clark, Beverly A., Michelle I. Hutchinson, Alan Reade, Ann Rockley, Kevin J. Schmidt and John R. Struck. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Writing>Technical Writing