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Subject:Re: Listing publications on a CV? From:"Kaye Adkins" <kadkins -at- missouriwestern -dot- edu> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:25:30 -0600
First, a quick introduction: I'm a professor of tech comm who's been lurking on this list for awhile (it helps me talk to my students about the issues that they will be facing as professionals in the field).
Most of the time I'm content to learn from this group, but now I may have a chance to contribute. If the cv is being prepared for an academic job, it is expected that you will include pretty much every major document that you have published (articles of course, but also any books/manuals/etc.). One way to include publications you've written as part of your work is to identify them as "in house." You can either do this under a separate heading, or parenthetically after each in-house publication. You should also identify the projects that were created as part of a team. This last is a plus in academia, where our students often don't believe us when we tell them that much of their writing will include collaboration of one kind or another.
Kaye Adkins
Associate Professor of English/Technical Communication
Missouri Western State University
A friend of mine is also a technical writer. She is creating a curriculum vitae
from her existing resume. She has been asked to include publications.
In our line of work, we can have quite a few books we've written. Do you list
publications you were hired to write under publications in a CV? Most of the
time (at least in my experience) no byline is given in manuals, so can you even
prove you wrote it?
How would you handle the situation if asked to prove the you had actually
written x number of books?
Seemed like an interesting question. I didn't have a good suggestion for her,
and thought I would ask my fellow techwrl-ers.
Kim Nylander
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