Vita of David A. McMurrey

The IBM Years

Recovering . . .

The ACC Years

Here is some information on David A. McMurrey's background:

Currently working on:
- My own web course system. Sorry about the mess. If you are interested, I can send you the link to the teacher desk. And I'd be delighted to share!
- unnamed. A more accessible version of Joseph M. Williams' wonderful Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. More accessible to ordinary working adults for whom Style feels like something written for graduate students.
- Steps to Structure and Coherence. An effort to provide extensive reading and interactive exercises on substantive matters such as content, development, organization, coherence, transitions.
11 years in publications for new products at IBM Corporation as writer and editor. Freelance writing, online-help authoring, HTML work, indexing, and editing for Dell, Tivoli, Texas Department of the American Legion, and individuals.
An embarrassing amount of years as full- and part-time instructor in writing courses at the University of Texas at Austin, Baker University in Kansas, Austin Community College, St. Edward's University, Brooklyn College, and IBM Corporation and its suppliers.
Writing-skills seminar presenter for IBM Corporation, Analysts International Corporation, Century Design, Wayne Dresser, Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission, Tivoli Systems, Broadjump.com, Texas Department of Health, Texas Bureau of Radiation Control, Texas Department of Human Services, Samsung Austin Semiconductor, Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service, and others.
Author of Processes in Technical Writing (Macmillan 1988); with M. Sue Campman, co-author of Writing Fundamentals (Macmillan, 1985); with David Beer, co-author of Writing as an Engineer (ISBN 0-471-11715-3: Wiley, 1996); author of A Writer's Handbook for Engineers, 2007 Thomson Engineering (CENGAGE) publication; author of Power Tools for Technical Communication (ISBN 0-15-506898-9: Heinle, 2001), with companion website; author of a free online textbook in technical writing available on the web.
Program coordinator for the Business and Technical Communications Program at Austin Community College, teaching courses in technical writing, online and traditional hardcopy documentation of software and hardware computer information.
Developer of writing-skills self-instructional materials in Perl (for use on the World Wide Web) and Visual Basic (for use in Windows).
Developer of online writing courses presented over the World Wide Web, including Technical & Business Writing; Online Helps and Help-Authoring Tools; Book-Length Documents with Adobe FrameMaker; Editing Government, Business, and Technical Information, Grammar & Style; and Government & Business Correspondence.
Founder and coordinator of Austin Community College's Webmaster Certificate Program as well as coordinator of Continuing Education Seminars in Technical Communication at ACC.
Bachelors in English from University of Texas at Austin; masters in English from Indiana University—Bloomington; doctorate from University of Texas at Austin in Comparative Literature; dissertation entitled The Populist Romance: A Study of Michelet's Le Peuple and Selected Novels of Hugo, Zola, James, and Galdós.

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