Portfolio: Writing and Editing

I am a very adaptable writer, able to use a variety of writing styles and work within guidelines. I have also worked on projects with teams as a writer and editor.

Software Documentation

Content Management Processes

As a contractor at a motorcycle company, I converted service manuals from FrameMaker to XML format. Throughout my work on this project, I looked for ways to help streamline the process. I wrote tutorials on how to batch process photos in Photoshop. I also wrote a tutorial for analyzing text to find reusable content.

[Batch Processing in Photoshop]
[MS Word Document Comparison]

Content Management (Ken Cook Co.)

During my co-op at Ken Cook Company, I documented their content management system. At the time, the company also needed legacy documents transferred from "unstructured frame" to "structured frame". So, I learned how to structure documents in FrameMaker and convert them to XML, and I documented this process while I did the work. [Adding Structure in FrameMaker]

User Guide Manual

e-Scholar

The e-Scholar Quick Guide manual is for an online teaching tool called e-Scholar that instructors used at UW-Stout while I was a student. I worked with a team of students to develop both a hard copy version and an online version. I wrote several tutorials for the e-Scholar Quick Guide and edited tutorials my team members wrote.

[e-Scholar Quick Guide (hard copy)]
[View information on the online manual]

Project Proposal

STC-TC Web Site

The following is a proposal I wrote for the Web site I created for the Society for Technical Communication (Twin Cities Community).

[View proposal]
[View more information on the Web project]

Journalistic Articles

The Stoutonia

I worked for The Stoutonia (University of Wisconsin-Stout student newspaper) for two years as a reporter and editor.

[Auto Club, as much about people as cars (9/22/05)]
[Student hopes for a new life after surgery (12/1/05)]
[Minority students share experiences: 'I am not who you see' (12/15/05)]
[Speaker presents alternative energy solutions and benefits (4/20/06)]
[Student from Taiwan masters at UW-Stout (4/20/06)]
[See unique Research Day projects (4/27/06)]

"I thought your article on [Cassy Bourget] was extremely well done--intelligent, sensitive and well written. Nice work." ~Mike Levy, Chair, Department of English (University of Wisconsin-Stout)

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