Andrea Ames' Professional Development Reading List

Andrea Ames, the current First Vice President of the Society for Technical Communication, was one of the panelists at the Willamette Valley Chapter's September meeting. She shared with the members her thinking about the direction of our profession, the technical communicator as profit maker and strategic contributor. She sees technical communicators working in four different modes (see description, .PDF file).

She backed up her theory with both her own experience and a reading list to help other technical communicators embark on the level of career growth that results in higher level contributions. The reading list, which she mentioned in her presentation at the September meeting, is provided here (reading list, .PDF file).