Portfolio
Society for Technical Communication (STC) Florida Chapter
As the STC Florida communications chair, I redesigned the MtM site. I selected a new, modern website theme, added a dark mode slider, and increased the number of articles a month by making publication rolling instead of monthly. You can find the home page of MtM here. In total, I've published over 150 articles so far; in some I've served as editor, in others as author or co-author. In addition to writing articles, I've also written meeting notices, published updates from chapter leadership, and helped promote active membership through articles.
Some of my articles include those listed below:
On the main chapter website, I've helped update a few of the pages. These include the active membership, Leadership Development Program, welcome toolkit, mission, vision, and values pages. I'm currently helping to update our Policies and Procedures which another chapter member, Dominick Chiovari, is leading.
I have also created and presented for the chapter, all of which can be found on the chapter YouTube page. Some of the presentations I'm most proud of are listed below with links to the slides:
Some of my articles include those listed below:
- - What is Editing?
- - How to Use Google Suite
- - Dungeons and Dragons and Technical Communication
- - The Diversity Month Series
- - Why Join and Stay in STC While a Student and Job Searching
- - The Personality Types and Tech Comm Series
- - Game Theory
On the main chapter website, I've helped update a few of the pages. These include the active membership, Leadership Development Program, welcome toolkit, mission, vision, and values pages. I'm currently helping to update our Policies and Procedures which another chapter member, Dominick Chiovari, is leading.
I have also created and presented for the chapter, all of which can be found on the chapter YouTube page. Some of the presentations I'm most proud of are listed below with links to the slides:
- - Writing for Everyone: Inclusive Technical Communication
- - How to Make a Great Presentation!
- - MailChimp as a Tool for Community Engagement
- - Leadership and Volunteerism: How STC Can Help Your Career
- - Dungeons and Dragons: Improving Your Tech Comm Skills Through Gaming!
- - Archetypes and Personal Branding
Collaborative Writing and Editing for Clients
I worked in collaborative teams to produce a Cultural Diversity Calendar and a Style Guide. I have provided links to my work on a Cultural Diversity Calendar to the right and to the Style Guide below.
In the Cultural Diversity Calendar, my part of the project was researching and writing for the month of June, as well as editing the materials for the first three months. In the Style Guide, I wrote one of the chapter introductions and the following sections in the chapter: “Paragraphs”, “An Overview of Punctuation”, “General Grammar”, “Obscure Punctuation Marks”, “Proofreading Tips”, and “Proofreading Symbols”. I am also including the chapter I edited for another group. The Cultural Diversity Calendar and an accompanying manual on how to change it for the years to come was made for our clients at the UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion in ENC 4294: Document & Client Based Collaboration. The Style Guide was made for our client, the professor, in ENC 4293: Documentation & the Collaborative Process. |
Diversity Calendar Google Slides: Diversity Calendar Google Doc (My month only): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oti9TcwVolgqZrF3zAhyptnLB3OXOTO-A4-HE1a3W6Q/edit?usp=sharing Diversity Calendar Google Doc (Full calendar): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fdevtq1EwHf9W_6UdCHfJINkD752cVuSqoityqHYyjk/edit?usp=sharing |
Style Guide Google Docs:
Style Guide Google Doc (Chapter I helped write): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uu7UPWkwctWI6nWfDLb-ero5aY6MugfWnV9aVicif28/edit?usp=sharing
Style Guide Google Doc (Chapter I edited): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pn5W6ivVKi8aLk6wvl-lcALHspJV1dPZKpUS-R_I2CE/edit?usp=sharing
Style Guide Google Doc (Chapter I helped write): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uu7UPWkwctWI6nWfDLb-ero5aY6MugfWnV9aVicif28/edit?usp=sharing
Style Guide Google Doc (Chapter I edited): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pn5W6ivVKi8aLk6wvl-lcALHspJV1dPZKpUS-R_I2CE/edit?usp=sharing
I made a business card and letterhead set for my department at Lockheed Martin: Performance Management Teams (PMT). Unfortunately, we are not using this set because of many reasons. I also volunteered to make a brochure for my high school's Music Parent's Association, the Georgetown Music Parents (GTMP), to help fix some broken lighting equipment for the auditorium.
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Visual Technical Documentation
I created several documents using the Microsoft Suite. I learned how to create useful, easy-to-understand visuals as well as how to arrange them properly on a page. Graphs and tables were made in Excel, text was created in Word, and everything was arranged in PowerPoint.
Here are some descriptions of my projects:
Here are some descriptions of my projects:
- - First project: Create a one-pager to explain to decision-makers in the College of Arts and Humanities what user experience design is and why UCF's Technical Communication BA should have a course focusing on it.
- - Second project: Use inaturalist.org to study various aspects of nature around the UCF Arboretum and create a document explaining our findings to educate students about nature on campus
- - I chose to focus on plants and highlight a few of them.
- - Final project: Create a document that would persuade and/or inform a specific audience about a technical or scientific topic or issue of our choice.
- - I chose to focus on climate change in Florida and used my document to inform and persuade students about how climate change is effecting and will effect Florida.
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Writing for the Technical Professional
I learned how to make many common technical documents using situations provided by our text book. The first document is a memo comparing two types of forklifts for a company in need of new forklifts. The second document is helping a student improve their resume. The third document is a memo about a new health care policy for a company. The fourth document is a brochure about Distance Learning Classrooms with the back page set up with mailing information. The fifth is similar to the fourth, but is about an organization called ORGANS: Organ Replacement Gives A New Start. The sixth document is making my own cover letter and resumé, this is an out of date set but I am leaving it as is to show what I learned then and how my current resumé has improved. The last document was our final exam paper which took the form of a memo to our professor explaining what we think the four most important things to consider when perparing a technical communication are.
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Essays
Here are some essays I wrote for class. I wrote "The Styles of Prescriptivism and Descriptivism in Editing" for ENC 4280: Technical Writing Style and "Ethos, Gender, & Gaming" for ENC 4415: Digital Rhetoric & Modern Dialect.
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Writing and Hypertext
I coded two websites; one is similar to this site, a personal website, and the other is on a topic of my choosing, LGBT+ on YouTube. This second website was made to not only showcase coding ability, but also a research paper about technology.
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