Women in Technical Communication
Edited by Sharon Burton.
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Women have shaped the field of technical communication for over 50 years. Women in Technical Communication presents, in their own words, the stories of the women who pioneered the field and those who are carrying it into the future.
For the first time, the stories of the women who built the profession of technical communication have been brought together. These women helped shape how the world understands technology.
Spanning fifty years of innovation, from typewriters to personal computers to smartphones, these first-hand stories reveal how women in technical communication carved out careers, led change, and defined a field in constant motion.
Told in their own words, this anthology celebrates these pioneers who turned communication into a bridge between people and technology:
| Rahel Anne Bailie | Carol Barnum | Mollye Barrett |
| Paula R. Berger | Alisa Bonsignore | Rhonda Bracey |
| Katherine (Kit) Brown-Hoekstra | Sharon Burton | Patricia Carmel |
| Jennifer Condon | Amanda Cross | Jackie Damrau |
| Melanie Denise Anderson Davis | Sandhya Devasani | Jacqueline Emanuele |
| Beth Favini | Jamie Meade Fix | Barbara A. Giammona |
| Jodie Gilmore | Sarah K. Gunning | JoAnn T. Hackos |
| Beth Haggerty | Bee Hanson | Radhika Hari |
| Hanna Heinonen | Brenda Huettner | Caroline Jarrett |
| Sajitha Jayaprakash | Mersedeh Jorjani | Debra W. Kahn |
| Laura Katajisto | Sneha Khanwelkar | Victoria (Vici) Koster-Lenhardt |
| Loria Kutch | Cheryl Landes | Joan Lasselle |
| Katarzyna Lech | Anne Lustig-Picus | Julie MacAller |
| C. Blaise Mitsutama | Suzanna Morris | Randee Napp |
| Traci Nathans-Kelly | Hanna Nelson | Kristy Lantz Newport |
| Laura A. Palmer | Aruna Panangipally | Kamala Raghunath |
| Judy Ramey | Janice (Ginny) Redish | Kersten Richter |
| Paula Robertson | Ann Rockley | Stephanie Rosenbaum |
| Stefanie Rosenberg | Suzanne Rubinstein | Yvonne Wade Sanchez |
| Karen Schriver | Patricia Shore | Cynthia Smith |
| Annette Sohor | Sara Stein | Tytti Suojanen |
| Amber Swope | Susan Tacker | Thea Teich |
| Joy Valentine | Danielle M. Villegas | Leigh W. White |
| Miriam F. Williams | Dana Worley |
Advance Praise
“If you care about technical communication as a discipline, not just a job title, buy this book. Read it because the field needs memory. Read it because the women who helped build it deserve to be heard. Read it because a profession that forgets its own history is doomed to keep rediscovering itself like a man who loses his glasses while wearing them.”
— Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, Why Technical Writers Should Read Women in Technical Communication
About Sharon Burton
Sharon Burton consults as a technical content strategist and teaches part-time at the University of California, Riverside, in the Bourns College of Engineering. Leveraging her graduate cultural anthropology education, Sharon’s career has been built around making content and content development easier for both businesses and content consumers.
In her spare time, she knits, sews, cooks, grows food, bakes bread, and goes to the gym. She can be found on the back of her husband’s motorcycle or driving her little red sports car. Three or more nights a week, Sharon teaches baby engineers to communicate at the University of California, Riverside, as part of the engineering program.