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Credentials and Background
Skills and experience in preparing ...
- Website basic design and content for
marketing, information, and sales
- Workshops in business writing and editing
- Professional books and research studies
- Technical communications such as user
manuals, product catalogs, and installation instructions
- Trade press and professional articles
- Classroom guides, teaching syllabi, and
business workshop presentations
- White papers and "thought
leadership" publications
- Capabilities and identity brochures, annual
reports, and shareholder communications
- Advertising copywriting (primarily
business-to-business)
- Speeches and seminar presentations
- Research using both conventional and on-line
information retrieval capabilities
- Employee and customer communications such as
newsletters and handbooks
- Translations of English-written business
communications into/from French and German
Former employers
- Cleveland Consulting Associates (now part of
Computer Sciences Corporation), a firm specializing in logistics management
consulting and information systems for Fortune 500 companies in consumer
goods, retailing, and other industries (Writer/Editor
and Director of Communications, Cleveland OH, 1983-87).
- U. S. National Office of Ernst & Whinney
(now Ernst & Young), major international accounting firm (Writer/Editor, Cleveland OH, 1978-83).
- URS Consultants (formerly
Dalton•Dalton•Newport), a large regional architecture, engineering, and
planning firm (Manager of Editorial
Department, Cleveland OH, 1976-78).
- Various colleges and universities: Instructor of composition, literature, and
technical communications at University of South Florida (2003 to
present), Ringling School of Art and Design (1998 to present), Manatee
Community College (1996-97), Lakeland Community College (1989), Case
Western Reserve University (1984), Cleveland State University (1977),
Kent State University (1972-74), Western Michigan University (1968-71),
and University of Kansas (1966-68).
Academic degrees and professional activities
- Ph.D. studies in English (completed all requirements except
dissertation), Kent State University (1971-74)
- M.A. in English (With Honors), University of Kansas (1968)
- Graduate study in literature
& linguistics,
Christian Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany (1965-66), supported by Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst fellowship, the German equivalent of the
U.S. Fulbright Fellowship
- B.A. in English & German (cum laude), University of Kansas (1965)
- Leadership of workshops on business
communications and technical writing
- Active as writer and editor of history,
fiction, poetry, and satire; former volunteer coordinator (2000-2006) of
"Kansas Historical
Quarterly Online," an initiative aimed at digitizing and
publishing over 20,000 pages of text and images from this scholarly
journal issued from 1931 to 1977
- Editor of RAF
Wings Over Florida, a book on WW II British and U.S.
aviation cadets trained at two bases in southwest Florida, published by
Purdue University Press in October 2000
Experienced with online communications, research, website design and
composition, and writing/editing workshops
To send email:
thorsdag(at)comcast.net [replace (at) with @]
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