Academics and Practitioners Posts

Academics and practitioners content covers posts related to the ongoing intersection between academic research and practitioner-relevant topics, especially if academic research or interviews are directly involved.

The following content is in the academics-and-practitioners category:

Symposium on Usability and Design in France in April 2025 | Nov 3, 2024

Prompt engineering series: Reverse engineering the recipe for excellent documentation | Mar 4, 2024

[Podcast] Breaking ground: New API documentation course at UW, with Bob Watson | Jan 5, 2024

Doing research with AI tools -- avoiding the trap of fabricated URLs | Nov 9, 2023

New article: AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't | Sep 28, 2023

New topic in API course: Using AI tools to write build and publish scripts | Jul 19, 2023

New topic in API doc course: AI document engineering with pattern-based prompts | Jul 6, 2023

Telling your conversion story into tech comm | Jun 25, 2023

How to find academic research to back up your tech comm decisions | May 19, 2023

AI starting to diminish work for student essay ghostwriters | May 19, 2023

Newsletter: Doctave, Chatbase, SiteGPT, small CLs, TC bibliography | May 9, 2023

Review of "Hashtag #TechComm: An Overview of Members, Networks, and Themes from 2016-2019" | Jul 22, 2021

WTD Australia event recording -- 'Remote discussion: Techcomm in the times of pandemic' | May 31, 2020

Guest post: Why are technical writers often treated as such an unimportant part of a company? | May 31, 2020

Are technical writers increasingly playing non-technical roles? Some thoughts on the evolution of technical writing roles | Mar 30, 2020

Podcast: Users as producers of knowledge -- conversation with Nupoor Ranade about how tech writer roles are changing | Mar 29, 2020

New topic in API course: Five strategies for documenting code | Aug 8, 2019

New topic in API course: Research on documenting code | Jul 29, 2019

New video recordings of Raleigh API documentation workshop now available | Apr 21, 2019

Why I decided not to become a grasshopper expert, or, Not deciding your focus based on where readers are clicking | Apr 9, 2019

Recognizing Research Realities Across Technical Communication -- guest post by Kirk St. Amant | Apr 1, 2019

Master's in technical writing at Mercer — FAQ | Mar 26, 2019

Should you get a degree in a tech comm program? Two considerations to keep in mind | Mar 13, 2019

How to design API documentation for opportunistic (active, experiential) learning styles | Mar 7, 2019

Corporate exodus narratives: A close look at the tension between the corporation and academia | Mar 1, 2019

Asserting your expertise as a SME in the workplace: Q&A with Jennifer Mallette and Megan Gehrke | Feb 15, 2019

Research on code documentation -- when not to comment on code | Dec 20, 2018

Tech comm trends -- why tech writers will be collaborating more with engineers | Oct 9, 2018

My conflicted thoughts about the decentralized web (while taking the Census of Technical Communicators survey) | Aug 6, 2018

Reciprocal knowledge networks and the iFixit Technical Writing Project -- Conversation with Guiseppe Getto | Jul 25, 2018

Looking at the theoretical foundations for tech comm -- Conversation with Lisa Melonçon | Jul 24, 2018

Adventures of a Techie Academic with Lightweight DITA (LwDITA): Conversation with Carlos Evia | Jul 23, 2018

Teaching Technological Adaptability to Bridge the Gap (Guest post by Melonie McMichael) | Jul 18, 2018

Combatting the "Make-It-Pretty" Philosophy: Technical Writers Fight Back (Guest post by Emily January Petersen) | Jul 18, 2018

Results from my Academic/Practitioner Attitudes surveys now available | Jul 17, 2018

The relationship between academics and practitioners -- Podcast with Kirk St. Amant | Jul 11, 2018

A short survey to measure academic/practitioner attitudes | Jul 2, 2018

Two open-ended surveys to gauge practitioner/academic attitudes | Feb 6, 2018

Podcast: The divide between academics and practitioners -- Interview with Lisa Meloncon | Aug 10, 2015

Why is there a divide between academics and practitioners in tech comm? | Aug 5, 2015

Are Academics Just Talking to Themselves? | Oct 18, 2010

Is Rhetoric Relevant? Considering the "Message in Context" [Organizing Content #27] | Sep 22, 2010

Reflections on Allison Reynold's Talk on Job Skills for the Workplace | Oct 23, 2007