Writing & Editing
I have written and edited user documentation for computer and web-based IT services, promotional and informational materials, press releases, newsletters, articles for academic and popular media, and style manuals. Below are a few examples that are available online. Print examples are also available upon request.
Technical Documentation and Style Manuals
ITS Style Guide (Writer's Guide)
In 2000, I converted the style guide/writer's handbook for our organization
from a print source into HTML. After creating the website, I updated
the content to reflect current technologies, including adding new sections
specifically designed to address Web publishing and naming conventions.
Since I left in 2004, this guide has been merged into the ITS Style
Guide and renamed the "Writer's Guide." The current version
appears to have minor edits but is substantially representative of the
guide I generated.
Email-02:
Using UT E-mail While Away from the University
Email-03:
Using UT Email With Another Primary ISP
These are examples of brief, "one-sheet" technical handouts
for UT Austin IT Services. Since 2004 this information has been repurposed
for use in various ITS webpages. These represent the format in which
they were still distributed when I worked on them.
Procedures for Cleaning Wire Recordings
This is a section of an audio restoration manual for cleaning of various
recording media. The manual is part of a project sponsored by the Archive
of Recorded Sound at Stanford University. (MS Word document)
Newsletter Articles
Bridge
to TexShare for Small/Rural Libraries (ALA Library
Instruction Roundtable Newsletter, Fall 2006, Co-author with ALA President
Loriene Roy and Sara Albert)
Out
of Austin: Checking UT Email Over Break (IT @ UT: IT News for
the UT Campus Community, Winter 2001)
Mac
OS X Is Here... Are You Ready? (IT @ UT: IT News for the UT
Campus Community, Spring 2001)
You've
Got (Web)Mail (IT @ UT: IT News for the UT Campus Community, Fall
2000)
Academic Papers
A
Cracked and Bloody Chalice: The Distortion of the Celtic Divine Feminine
in Lady Macbeth
(First prize, UT Austin English Department Undergraduate Writing Competition
1995)
