Technical writing is the art, craft, practice, or problem of translating that which is logical into that which is grammatical. Technical writing forms a bridge between the logical (the primarily binary concepts understood by computers, robots, lawyers) and the illogical (the haphazard, inconsistent concepts misunderstood carbon-based life forms, highly intelligent computers, lawyers) via the medium of the grammatical, the haphazardly logical system incomprehensible to both. The practice of technical writing presupposes that you, the illogical, actually want to learn about the logical subject, which of course is in all cases false. This basis in a false presupposition makes technical writing a pursuit typically favoured by those with arts degrees from obscure universities.

About (Technical Communicator Résumé of Robert Chapman)

Education and training

University

University of Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

No degree. Graduate and undergraduate courses related to secondary education, including special education reading specialist.

Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri

Bachelor of Arts (History). Coursework includes 75% of a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree, including 25 semester hours in Mathematics. Lacking an Astronomy course to have a minor in Physics.

Training

Iron Mountain, Inc., Training, Boston, Massachusetts

Information Mapping Seminar (class) on how to implement their writing and formatting techniques.

Seminars

WritersUA (WinWriters), Seattle, Washington

Attended three WritersUA conferences on how to create user assistance documentation.

Hawaiian Hall complex of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu
Hawaiian Hall complex of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu (original home of the Kamehameha Schools)
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