European Academic Colloquium on Technical Communication Volume 6, 2018

••••• Gianni Angelini holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities. He has been writing technical documentation in the IT sector since 2009 and he has a deep professional interest in technical communication theories, structured writing, and XML-based CMS. Gianni has published a book on skills required by modern technical writing for the Italian audience (“Il comunicatore tecnico”, FrancoAngeli, 2014). He is currently attending a Master in Technical Communication and e-Learning at the University of Limerick, as part of a sabbatical year devoted to learning and research.
••••• Parthena Charalampidou has a Ph.D. in Translation and Website Localization. She has worked as a freelance translator and has taught translation related undergraduate courses at the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus and both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently she works as a Laboratory Teaching Fellow at the school of French Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests focus on corporate and NGO Website Localization, Multimodal Metaphor Translation, Semiotics and Translation,
Persuasive Discourse Translation etc.
••••• Sissi Closs is Professor of Information and Media Technology at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, CEO of C-Topic Consulting, and inventor of the Class Concept Method®. She is one of the leading experts in the field of Technical Communication. Together with 2 colleagues, she founded the Technical Communication Studies degree course at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.
••••• Jan Engberg is Professor of Knowledge Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark, in the School of Communication and Culture. Since 1990 he has been training LSP translators and business communication
specialists between German and Danish. An important part of his research investigates ways of modelling personal and collective knowledge in expert settings.
••••• Margaret Grene is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Technical Communication in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests include plain language, plain language in health communication, plain language in technical communication.
••••• Kirk St. Amant is a Professor and the Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair in Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University (USA) and an Adjunct Professor of International Health and Medical Communication with the University of Limerick (Ireland). His research examines design and usability issues in educational, international, and medical contexts, and he has worked on Projects for Medtronic, VERITAS Software, and Unisys and the non-Profit Humanitarian Demining Information Center (HDIC) and the Consortium for the Enhancement of Ukrainian Management Education (CEUME). His recent books include Teaching and Training for Global Engineering and Culture, Communication, and Cyberspace: Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments.
••••• Elaine Walsh graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Music) from the Waterford Institute of Technology, a Higher Diploma in Education from University College Dublin and a Masters of Arts in eLearning Design and Development from University of Limerick. In 2015, she began a PhD Teaching Fellowship (funded by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) in the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her PhD focuses on the communication of written assessment instructions in higher education. She previously worked in e-Learning and online distance education in the Open Education Unit within the National Institute for Digital Learning in Dublin City University.
••••• Christiane Zehrer studied Applied Linguistics and Information Science. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Hildesheim with a thesis on Situated Communication in Technical Communication Projects, drawing on an extensive study in the mechanical industry. She presently works as an IT Project Manager in Berlin. Christiane has also published on project communication, terminology and CAT, TecCom didactics and various aspects of easy-to-read German.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities. He has been writing technical documentation in the IT sector since 2009 and he has a deep professional interest in technical communication theories, structured writing, and XML-based CMS. Gianni has published a book on skills required by modern technical writing for the Italian audience (“Il comunicatore tecnico”, FrancoAngeli, 2014). He is currently attending a Master in Technical Communication and e-Learning at the University of Limerick, as part of a sabbatical year devoted to learning and research.

Kirk St. Amant, Louisiana Tech University and University of Limerick (USA & Ireland). Kirk St. Amant is a Professor and the Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair in Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University and an Adjunct Professor of International Health and Medical Communication with the University of Limerick. His research examines design and usability issues in educational, international, and medical contexts, and he has worked on projects for Medtronic, VERITAS Software, Unisys, and the non-profit Humanitarian Demining Information Center (HDIC) and the Consortium for the Enhancement of Ukrainian Management Education (CEUME). His recent books include Teaching and Training for Global Engineering and Culture, Communication, and Cyberspace: Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments.

She is Professor of Information and Media Technology at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and CEO of C-Topic Consulting. She is one of the leading German experts in the field of technical communication. She is an internationally wellknown lecturer and consultant for XML and information architecture. Sissi Closs has defined the class concept method® for developing flexible frameworks for Topic and Link classes®. As a specialist for topic-based structuring, she belongs to the DITA pioneers and has designed and implemented the first DITA implementation in Germany at Deutsche Post. She is also the author of a number of books about single source publishing, topic-based structuring, and mobile documentation.

She has a Ph.D. in Translation and Website Localization. She has worked as a freelance translator and has taught translation related undergraduate courses at the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus and both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently she works as a Laboratory Teaching Fellow at the school of French Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests focus on corporate and NGO Website Localization, Multimodal Metaphor Translation, Semiotics and Translation, Persuasive Discourse Translation etc.

Jan Engberg is Professor of Knowledge Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark, in the School of Communication and Culture. Since 1990 he has been training LSP translators and business communication specialists between German and Danish. An important part of his research investigates ways of modelling personal and collective knowledge in expert settings.

Margaret Grene is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Technical Communication in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests include plain language, plain language in health communication, plain language in technical communication.

Elaine Walsh graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Music) from the Waterford Institute of Technology, a Higher Diploma in Education from University College Dublin and a Masters of Arts in eLearning Design and Development from University of Limerick. In 2015, she began a PhD Teaching Fellowship (funded by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) in the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her PhD focuses on the communication of written assessment instructions in higher education. She previously worked in e-Learning and online distance education in the Open Education Unit within the National Institute for Digital Learning in Dublin City University.

Christiane Zehrer studied Applied Linguistics and Information Science. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Hildesheim with a thesis on Situated Communication in Technical Communication Projects, drawing on an extensive study in the mechanical industry. She presently works as an IT Project Manager in Berlin. Christiane has also published on project communication, terminology and CAT, TecCom didactics and various aspects of easy-to-read German.