Telling the stories of women in technical communication with Sharon Burton

The Not-Boring Tech Writer · Oct 29, 2026 · 1h 13m · transcript

In this episode, I talk with Sharon Burton, a technical content strategist who has taught technical communication to engineering students at the University of California, Riverside, for 22 years and edited the book Women in Technical Communication. We talk about how a $10-an-hour job writing computer manuals took her from cultural anthropology into a field that gave her permission to be curious, how a scam anthology and a friend’s terminal cancer diagnosis led to the book, why the people who did the work should tell the history of technology themselves, and how she used AI to write the Google…