Contributors

This page records, with gratitude, people who have helped with this project. We are all volunteers. We also thank the many other people who have helped us directly or indirectly, but who choose to remain anonymous. If you have contributed to TCBOK in any way and would like to be acknowledged here, please contact the TCBOK team.

Current TCBOK Committee

• Deanne Levander, Chair/Chief Editor
• Tim Shaw, Society Liaison
• Craig Baehr, Advisor
• Michelle Cutler, Deborah Doyle, Laura Harding, Bernard King, and Cindy Pao, TCBOK Editors

Our Volunteer Contributors

• • Andrea L. Ames, STC Fellow. Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Wait! We Can! Better Understanding Content Marketing to Build Bridges and Wild Client Success
  • Elizabeth L. Angeli. Understanding Technical Communication Practices in Prehospital Healthcare Contexts.
  • Brian Ballentine, assistant professor and coordinator for the Professional Writing and Editing program at West Virginia University.
  • Francis Bao, STC Associate Fellow, Expert Tips to Improve Content Quality When Writing for Translation
  • Thomas Barker, Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University.  Tommy was a team leader for the “Managing Your Career/Professional Development” section of the TCBOK.
  • Mollye Barrett, Principal at ClearPath, LLC, first TCBOK editor-in-chief.
  • Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware, worked with his undergraduate professional rhetoric class at  to create contributions in areas of rhetorical research and theory.
  • Alex Blanton, Senior Content Project Manager, Engineering Excellence, Microsoft Corporation.
  • Nicky Bleiel, STC Associate Fellow. Collaborating and Contributing in GitHub.
  • Karla Busch contributed as a student working with Dr. Marjorie Davis.
  • Raymond Calbay, communication specialist and web administrator of STC Philippine chapter.
  • Ben Colborn, courseware development lead at Citrix Systems, Inc.
  • Lisa Cook, STC Fellow. Be Part of the Solution.
  • Dr. Nancy Coppola, Director, MS in Professional & Technical Communication and Professor of English, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Dr. Coppola is a founding contributor to TCBOK, and has documented its history in her 2010 paper “The Technical Communication Body of Knowledge Initiative: An Academic-Practitioner Partnership” (abstract available to all; full text requires STC membership).
  • Yvonne Cleary, STC Senior Member and Darina M. Slattery, Training Technical Communication Students to Work with Translators
  • Marjorie T. Davis, Professor, Mercer University. Served with the initial team creating the STC BOK project; worked with graduate students from Mercer to add some content and test the personas.
  • Deborah Lewis Baxley Doyle, STC professional technical communicator, whose article The Magic Three won an STC Regional Excellence Award for its innovative perspective in simplifying content development. She is currently writing a book on content strategy built on the philosophy of modular content. TCBOK Committee Member.
  • Debby Davy, STC professional technical communicator and practice leader of DK Consultants and Master techwriter.
  • Kumar Dhanagopal, Understanding Our Users: A Comparative Analysis of the Techniques We Can Use
  • David Dick, STC Fellow. How to Design Documentation with Users in Mind.
  • Britt Ellmer, student contributor working with Dr. Marjorie Davis.
  • Elizabeth Filippo, student contributor working with Dr. Marjorie Davis.
  • Anne Gentle, community documentation consultant, STC Senior Member.
  • Sarah Gelotte, student contributor working with Dr. Stephen Bernhardt.
  • Claire Gould, now an Editor/Writer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, contributed as a student working with Dr. Stephen Bernhardt.
  • Morgan Hancock, Git Happens.
  • Rob Hanna, technology lead and Producing TC lead.
  • Mark Hanigan, project leader
  • Hillary Hart, STC Fellow, founding project leader.
  • Chris Hester, STC Fellow, accredited CPTC Foundation trainer
  • Dr George Hayhoe, professor of technical communication and director of the MS in Technical Communication Management program at Mercer University.
  • Allyson Heisler
  • Alan Houser, STC Fellow, Are You Ready for Machine Translation?
  • Samantha Hudson, Appalachian State University
  • Jeff Huset
  • Caroline Jarrett, STC Fellow, project manager 2008-2010; wiki manager 2009-2012
  • Dr Ann Jennings, University of Houston-Downtown, contributed bibliographies.
  • Cindy Johnson
  • Toshiba Burns Johnson, Technical Writer, SAS. Accessible Text Labels.
  • Steven Jong, STC Senior Member, contributed a section on Metrics and as a team member.
  • Kim Kahat
  • Danielle Karr, Your Email Doesn’t Deserve the Junk Folder: How to Write a Subject Line that Will “Inbox”
  • Rebecca Kasman, online editor for udressmag.com, contributed as a student working with Dr. Stephen Bernhardt.
  • Nataly Kelly, Leverage Transparency to Achieve the Three Goals for Translation: Speed, Quality, and Price
  • Connie Kiernan, STC Fellow, project leader.
  • Joel Kline, Professor of Digital Communications at Lebanon Valley College.
  • Deanne Levander, STC Fellow and Chief Editor, TCBOK.
  • Michele Linn. Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Wait! We Can! Better Understanding Content Marketing to Build Bridges and Wild Client Success.
  • Janette Lynch
  • Shaun Marquardt, Recommendations for Accessibility & Usability.
  • Ed Marshall, STC Fellow. Generating API Docs Automatically from the Source Code.
  • Maury Maryanow, Assistant Professor, Troy University, Montgomery Campus, and his students.
  • Preeti Mathur, STC Associate Fellow
  • Lauren McCarthy, Appalachian State University
  • Matt Mermel, Applying a Six Sigma Approach to Accurate, Effective Translation
  • Stephanie Mooring, Director of the Academic Resource Center, Mercer University
  • Linda L. Oestreich, STC Fellow, former STC President, Information Development Manager for HP, and an original champion of TCBOK.
  • Cindy Pao, contributor to the Research topic and TCBOK Editor
  • Daniel Portwood, technical communicator at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, contributed first as a student working with Dr. Marjorie Davis.
  • Alice Preston, User Experience Architect
  • Morgan Prettyman, student contributor working with Dr. Stephen Bernhardt.
  • Amruta Ranade, a former MS student at Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Janice (Ginny) Redish, Redish & Associates, Inc., STC Fellow and founding member of TCBOK.
  • Annette Reilly, Lockheed Martin Enterprise Business Services, providing information about relevant international standards for technical communication.
  • Dan Riechers, technical writer and supervisor, Eaton Corporation. Completed M.S. in Technical Communication at North Carolina State University in May of 2011.
  • Linda Roberts, STC Senior Member. Accessible PDFs and Be Part of the Solution.
  • Kirk St. Amant, STC Fellow, Reconsidering Social Media for Global Contexts
  • Keith Schengili-Roberts, DITA specialist for IXIASOFT. The Benefits of DITA Authoring within a Component Content Management System.
  • Stephanie Schrankler, Chief Communication and Learning Officer for Sagitec Solutions, LLC.
  • Karen Schriver, Researcher, Consultant, Educator; President, KSA Communication Design & Research, Inc. Contribute ideas on research about writing and information design.
  • Christine Marini Sigman, Principal Technical Writer, Endeca Technologies
  • Annik Stahl, Delivering Global Content: An Imperfect Science
  • Val Swisher, Why You Need a Global Content Strategy
  • Mary Tan
  • Lisa Trager, Want Personalization? Start with Content Engineering
  • Aimee Whiteside, Preparing New Writers for Change