Category: Surveys

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Of Interest: AI in a Technical Editing Context Study

Are you integrating AI into your editing processes? If so, your insights could be invaluable to ongoing research led by Dr. Lance Cummings at UNC Wilmington. He is conducting interviews to explore the strategies and challenges faced by technical editing practitioners using AI in their workflows. These interviews will contribute to a broader understanding of how AI is shaping the future of technical communication.

Dr. Cummings invites you to participate in a 30-45 minute interview conducted via Zoom, where you can share your experiences and perspectives. Your input will help uncover best practices and potential pitfalls, offering valuable guidance to others in the field.

If you’re interested in contributing to this important research, please contact Dr. Cummings at cummingsl@uncw.edu. Your participation will benefit both technical communication academics and practitioners, and provide you with a way to reflect on and share your expertise in this critical area.

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Of Interest: Exploring Workplace Bias in Software Companies

Amanda Altamirano, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Central Florida. is inviting technical communicators to participate in research that gathers their opinions and experiences working in the software industry.

The purpose of this research is:

  1. To find out about technical communicators’ perceptions and experiences specific to bias in the software workplace,
  2. To figure out if these perceptions and experiences impact their ability to author and manage technical software documentation.
  3. To determine whether a diagram can help reduce biases in technical documentation.

Survey participants will receive a $5 Amazon e-gift card.
Click the link below to participate:

https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_br0Yehc69OQIaKq

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Survey: The Current State of Technical Editing

by Kelly Schrank

The May/June issue of Intercom will be on technical editing, so we’d like to get an idea of what you do in your jobs as technical editors, the types of companies that employ you, tools you use, and how you work.

Please take our 5-minute anonymous survey and let us know about your work (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3QMZXDX). 

Note: This issue of Intercom will have articles about the past and future of technical editing, and how to become a technical editor. You may have contributed to those surveys, too, and we appreciate it! This is a new survey for a new article, though, so we'd love to hear your answers to these questions, too!
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Survey: How Do You Become a Technical Editor?

In May/June 2023, the STC is going to publish a special issue of Intercom on Technical Editing (Kelly Schrank, guest editor)!

One of the subjects that they want to cover is “how do you become a technical editor?” To answer this fascinating question, Linda Oestreich has put together a short survey and has asked Corrigo to publicize it so she can get a broad range of answers from technical editing practitioners at various stages of their career. 

Please go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SMSNZQT, and help answer this thought-provoking question!