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*Stephen X. Arthur, MFA, MSc
Technical writer specializing in technical instructions delivered in clear, plain English for revisable manuals.

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Technical Subjects

Semi-Technical

Non-Technical/Creative

User guides | Policy manuals | Training guides | Program guides | Proposals & reports | Scientific | 
Training videos | Corporate documentaries | Public info | Trades journalism | Promotions & reviews | Educational films | Radio commercials | Screenplays | Web sites | Visual communication 

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Technical Subjects

 


User guides (software and hardware)

  - iSolution DT Microscopic Imaging Solution (sw upgrade) [confidential] IMT (South Korea)
  - Managing SQID Reports (Safety & Quality Integrated Database) [confidential] CHC Helicopter - Global
  Process for Recording Raw Gas Production (software - for online - excerpt) BC Gas Revenue Branch
  COPA Partial Discharge Analysis System - Operation (excerpt) Adwel Intern'l (Toronto)
  Spectrum Envoy - office communications management - User Guide (excerpt) Spectrum Signal Process.
  GL3900 The Message Manager - Operator's Manual (excerpt) 
- Supervisor's Manual - Manager's Manual (excerpt)		 Glenayre Electronics
  Tiger - User Guide (stockbrokers) (excerpt) Sydney Development
  - MDI 6100 Portable Data Terminal - Documentation Plan and Parts Information Mobile Data Int'l/MDSI
  - Validation Completion Report: AWDS Weather System Operation and Maint. McDonald Detwiler Assoc
  - The General Ledger Package - User Guide HCL McDonald & Assoc
  - The School System: Overview (scheduling software) Columbia Computing
 


Policy & procedure manuals
  SOP Manual – Fire Dispatch - Managing Events (excerpt, annotated) E-Comm 9-1-1
  SOP Manual – Fire Dispatch - Table of Contents & Special Situations (excerpt) E-Comm 9-1-1
  Standard Operating Procedures (for online) (firefighters) (excerpt) Richmond Fire-Rescue
  Condition Assessment in the Field (excerpt) BC Transmission Corp
  Practice for Management of External Training (QA Directive) (excerpt) Hughes Aircraft Canada
 


Training guides

  Distribution Switching for Linemen (Program Outline & excerpt) BC Hydro /Nutec Train.
  Ministry staff orientation: Use of Forms (software) (excerpt) BC Gas Revenue Branch
  Resource Inventory Skills Training - Aerial Photos - Facilitator   BC Ministry of Forests
  Resource Inventory Skills Training - Aerial Photos - Participant   BC Ministry of Forests
  Resource Inventory Skills Training - Navigate in the Field - Participant MoF / Nutec Training
 


Training videos
  How to Use the Methylcellulose System (excerpt - AV format) Terry Fox Lab (BCCA)
  Final Check: The Screening Line (screenplay format) BC Fisheries Council/BCIT
  Vegetation Inventory Orientation  - Overview - Field Navigation and Plot Establishment (excerpt - AV format) - Photo Interpretation - Inventory Cruising & Call Grading - Measuring Course Woody Debris - Forage Measurements  - Plants, Soil, & Old Growth BC Ministry of Forests
(BCIT/Nutec Training/
Black Tusk Video)
 


Scientific
  - SR&ED Experimental Development Tax Credit - Detailed Project Descriptions IWASAN Consulting.
  - MRC Research Grant Application - Pharmacology (style/copy edit only) Dr. Reza Tabrischi UBC
 

Characterization and distribution of glutathione receptors in primary visual cortex (original research)
  Neuromodulation of oscillatory bursting in thalamic relay neurons (review)
 

The neurobiology of itch (review)
 

Neurotransmitters as inducers of differentiation (review)
 

Mechanisms of neurotransmitter receptor desensitization (review)
 

Models for activation of transcription by steroid receptors (review)
 

From Above the Web - The Existence of Atoms (excerpt) - Enzymes (excerpt)
- Flowchart & Intro (excerpt) (textbook)

 

Towards a Complete Synthetic Theory of Evolution (monograph) (excerpt)
     

 
 Semi-Technical Subjects

 


Program guides
  Introduction to Quality Improvement (Practice Support Program) Healthy Heart/MoH/BCMA
  Adopting the Chronic-Disease-Management Toolkit (PSP) (annotated) Healthy Heart/MoH/BCMA
  - JIBC Fire Academy Course Calendar Justice Institute of BC
  - District Office Systems: Department Guide BC Ministry Social Serv.
 


Corporate documentary videos

  Beyond the Tunnel (Bell Resources) - play the video (off-site) ImageMaker (agency)
  Breaking Ice: Baffinland Iron Mines - play the video (off-site) ImageMaker (agency)
  - Tracking the Future (Baffinland, for Inuit community) [confidential] ImageMaker (agency)
  Electrum: The Elements Come Together (American Creek) - play the video ImageMaker (agency)
  In Balance and Designed to Stay That Way: BC Central Credit Union (AV format) Vidatron Prod. (agency)
  Hillsborough Resources: Corporate Documentary (screenplay format) Shane Lunny (agency)
  - Trans Atlantic Resources: Corporate Documentary  Mott Communications
  - What Do the OTs Do? (BC Children's Hospital) UBC Biomedical Comm.
  - Introduction to Glenayre  Glenayre Electronics
 


Public information
  World's Deadliest Poison Used for Revolutionary Therapies BC Medical Association
  That Day in Science (interactive exhibit)   Science World BC
 


Trades journalism
  Man-made Atom Reveals the Fabric of the Universe (news brief) TRIUMF
  Glenayre Mini-TAS Uses VME Bus from DY-4 Systems Glenayre Electronics
  Glenayre Electronics (Corporate Profile) Glenayre/Computec Mag
  - Show and Tell at BC Tel ITVA newsletter
 


Proposals and reports
  - 2008 State of the Transmission System Report (substantive editing, rewrite) BC Transmission Corp
  Tran Scan - Proposal for Film Production Grant (successful) Canada Council ...Arts
  Tran Scan - Final Report Canada Council ...Arts
  Earth Moves: Proposal for Completion (see additional details on web page) National Film Board
  Earth Moves: Report - Content Research (web page off-site) National Film Board
  - Creative Development Proposal - Media Arts (successful) Canada Council ...Arts
  - Nomination for YWCA Women of Distinction Award (successful)
     

 
 Creative and Non-Technical

 


Promotions and reviews
  Trade Shows: Hawking Our Wares at High Tech Fairs Glenayre Electronics
  A Day in Creative Services Glenayre Electronics
  NFB to Expand Shadbolt Animation National Film Board
  Paintings "Touched Alive" by Animator
  Uptime, Downtime: Marilyn Atkinson and NLP Marilyn Atkinson
  Film Review: Kaerajaan Int'l Animation Assoc.
  Voila! Masters Reveal Their Methods (web page off-site) Northwest Animator
  Hai! Recollections from the Hiroshima International Animation Festival Northwest Animator
  - Gemstone - Game Player's Guide (software) Sydney Development
  - Len Hill Aims Criticism at TV Network Practices USC Alumni Newsletter
 


Educational films
  Earth Moves (screenplay format - web page off-site) National Film Board
  What Do They Do at the Justice Institute? docudrama (screenplay format) Justice Institute of BC
  - Over a New Leaf: Lighthouse Park West Van. Parks & Rec.
 


Commercials (radio)
  Bikes on Broadway - "Torture Test" Bikes on Broadway
  Bikes on Broadway - "Deprogramming" Bikes on Broadway
  Bikes on Broadway - "What Love Is" Bikes on Broadway
 


Screenplays (full-length features)

  Critical Mass (re-used title) (thriller) [brief synopsis] MTA/Persik Prod., L.A.
  Getting It (romantic comedy) (excerpt only) R&K/Rudy Romero, L.A. 
  - Critical Mass (dark farce - title re-used later for totally different story) Licht-Mueller Films, L.A.
  - Big Breaks (satire)
  - Placebo (problem drama)
  - Eclipse (drama)
  The Prometheus Effect - treatment (i.e. outline)  (hard science fiction)
  - The Catalyst - treatment for series pilot (topical psychological drama - cloning) [brief synopsis]
 


Web sites (content and production)
  Tran Scan: The DVD. A Memorial Celebration of Geography
  Xenos: Experimental Animation
 


Visual Communication
  Duck Hybrids and Variants in Greater Vancouver (photojournalism) Discovery Vol. 23, No. 1
  Earth Moves (storyboards and demonstration clip) (web page off-site) National Film Board
  Blind Man (animated TV commercial without words) (QuickTime - web page off-site)

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