This week on Stained Glass Woman, I've got something unusual for y'all: a seven-year research project looking at #syllabus #design that I couldn't get published in any peer-reviewed journal. It's my hope that anyone who's a #teacher or works in #TechnicalWriting / #TechComms can make use of the research I did, peer reviewed or no.

And if you're here for my stuff on gender, don't worry--we're gonna dive into Judith Butler next week!

https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/student-engagement-from-the-syllabus?sd=pf

I'm looking forward to joining the first ISTC Meets session of 2023, hosted by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators.

Anne Dougherty will be presenting her talk, Story or Die: How to Use UX Methods to Tell More Effective Stories and Increase Team Success.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/istc-meets-anne-dougherty-tickets-477471047757

#TechComms #UXwriting

Note to self: remember to share news about @karenyin ‘s #ConsciousStyleGuide newsletter with my #editing and #TechWriting friends because it has links to good articles with important talking points. Find the link in the message that I am replying to with this toot. #TechComm #TechComms

Looking into a little pan containing the start of a mocktail for tomorrow’s virtual Christmas party with my tech writing colleagues. I’ll be using sparkling water in the final result, and others will use champagne. Plus other stuff like elderflower and ginger. See alt text for more info. #techcomms

The #WriteTheDocs talk by @sarah11918 about encouraging community-driven documentation was very helpful. Sarah introduced the power of the Not Worse Than What We Had Before (
#NWTWWHB ) approach to accepting contributions to docs.

@lananovikova reflects on this talk: https://twitter.com/_Unsolved_/status/1601158921024024576?t=X0tZYD2e-RNeSGUVoIpPJg&s=19

#techwriting #techcomms

Over the last couple of days I have been attending the Australian Write the Docs conference, learned a lot and had some great conversations.

One thing I learned about was Simplified Technical English:
https://twitter.com/perkinsy/status/1601171073500090368?t=7DmwNDwDSHwAB_XulV4okQ&s=19

#techcomms #techwriting #writethedocs