Tools
Writing/Revision Platforms
- Eli Review
- BBEdit (text editor note: there are lots of these for different systems. Make sure you get the one that is right for you.)
Professional and Disciplinary Organizations:
- The Society for Technical Communication
- The STC Usability SIG
- User Experience Professionals’ Association (UXPA)
- Triangle UXPA Chapter
- The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- ACM – SIGDOC (Association for Computing Machinery – Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication)
- ACM – SIGCHI (Association for Computing Machinery – Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interactions)
Blogging:
Coding & Coding Tools:
- MIT Android App Inventor
- MIT’s Scratch: Kid friendly coding
Curation:
Organizing Small Group Meeting Times:
Citation/Documentation Style:
We will be using APA (American Psychiatric Association) style citation. Here are a few online resources for this style:
Neat Tools:
- Libre Office Software: a free cross platform office suite
- Zotero Citation Software: Web based citation curator
Lexical Resources and APIs
Rhetoric:
- The Galilean Library “What is Rhetoric?”
- Silva Rhetoricae Rhetorical Forest
Sitemap Generator:
Text Processing
- Stanford CoreNLP
- Natural Language Toolkit (python)
Usability:
- Boxes and Arrows provides articles about usability, human factors, and design
- Usability Methods Toolbox, which contains descriptions and explanations of many types of usability tests
- The U.S. Government your tax dollars at work
Visualization Tools:
Wireframing/Prototyping:
Web
Web Crawling and Scraping
- Scrapy (Free, open source Python)
- Helium Scraper (No trial, Windows)
- Outwit Hub (Free version, Windows/OSX)
- FMiner (Free Trial 15 Days, Windows/OSX)
- Mozenda (30 day trial)
- Visual Web Ripper (14 day trial, Windows)