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Technical Writing For Multi-Lingual Audiences 
In the global marketplace today, wise companies are learning an important fact about translation. Survival in today’s international environment means not making translation an afterthought. You gain precious competitive advantage if, as you develop your product and its accompanying documentation for simultaneous release in international markets, you plan for translation from the outset.
Landgren, Theodora. MetroVoice (2003). Articles>Language>Localization>Technical Writing
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Technical Writing in Everyday Life: One User's Experience
The experience of setting up a new home theater system also sharply reminded me of what it is like to look at something as a new user: staring at a bunch of knobs and holes for the first time, holding a tassel of wire in one hand and a manual in the other, and really just wanting the darn piece of ?%^%! to do what it's supposed to do.
Vedrody, Sarah. MetroVoice (2002). Articles>Documentation>User Centered Design>Technical Writing
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A Tip on Record-Keeping in Windows
Microsoft Windows keeps all your files in folders (within directories and subdirectories), and allows you to have as many folders as you want. You can also name them in almost any way you want, but that sometimes leads to confusion, because Windows needs to be told how you want these folders ordered.
Pinkham, Gordon. MetroVoice (2004). Articles>Software>Operating Systems>Microsoft Windows
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Transition: Technical Writer to Technical Writing Teacher
The transition from being a technical writer to becoming a Visiting Professor of Technical Communication has meant, so far, that 1) I work a whole lot more, and 2) I finally have a chance to see the effect of the things that we create on the user. My students have helped me to do this.
Johnson, Carol Siri. MetroVoice (2002). Articles>Education>Writing>Technical Writing
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Website Automation: or, How I Saved My Sanity at the Last Minute
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's maintaining a website. The design is the fun part— solving problems, incorporating a brand, meeting user needs. That's what we live for. But maintenance? Yuck. So I surveyed the technologies available; what could I automate to ease the burden on myself and other volunteers? This article presents the results of this undertaking. It focuses mainly on the processes and their results. I discuss details of the tools and technologies where relevant, but this is not a tutorial on any tools or technologies; I'll provide resources for further information.
Hendry, Michael. MetroVoice (2002). Design>Web Design>Content Management
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What Color Is Your Future Job: Commodity Writer or Strategic Communicator?
Commodity writing is the type of technical communication characterized as the creation of formulaic documentation on demand, and is closely tied to writing code. Companies are increasingly comfortable outsourcing both of these tasks. Those are the jobs being sent offshore, as evidenced by the surge in job openings on STC job boards in the Asia-Pacific countries.
Bailie, Rahel Anne. MetroVoice (2003). Careers>Writing>Outsourcing>Technical Writing
