October 2017

In this issue, Meredith reports on Board happenings, the relaunch of the GDIDM, upcoming workshops by international presenter Dave Gash, and branch events around the country. We offer you some educational opportunities with a review of STC's Technical Editing Foundations course and the new GDIDM and MWRIT available in Christchurch. Grant offers you some reading with a clear academic focus in this month's Let's Tech Communicate.

From the President

Hooray for Spring! I’m finding it really hard to believe we are now in October. That means that not only is Christmas coming, but it’s time to write another report.

In this report: board happenings, Dave Gash's workshops, UX Conference, branch events and the relaunch of the GDID...

Featured TC: Dave Gash

Dave is a San-Diego based software professional with over thirty years of development, documentation, and training experience. Dave holds degrees in Business and Computer Science, and is well known in the technical writing community as an interesting and animated instructor. His teaching technique has been called “entertraining” making technology both accessible and fun.

A review of STC's Technical Editing Foundations course

Before moving into technical communication, I'd done a diploma in editing and proofreading, and some freelance editing, and I was keen to specialise in editing. I thought the Technical Editing Foundations course might be a good refresher and give me some insight into technical editing specifically. It was and it did.

Ara institute provides GDIDM update

There has been a lot of interest in news of Ara's revised Graduate Diploma of Information Design and Management. We report on the latest update from Ara and Christchurch's upcoming branch event Ara information design in 2018 - all systems go.

University of Canterbury announces Master of Writing

Looking for an alternative to the GDIDM in Christchurch? The University of Canterbury has announced a new Master of Writing qualification, which includes professional, technical, and fiction and non-fiction writing.

Let's Tech Communicate

Earnsy Liu’s scholarly Where’s the Evidence series is so enjoyable and thought-provoking that for this month’s Let’s Tech Communicate Grant offers you some reading with a clear academic focus.