Join us for a chat with Dr. Julie Christen, a Learning Experience Designer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hosted by Anuj Gupta, PhD Candidate at the University of Arizona and a DRC Fellow, this episode covers Julie’s journey from academia (where she did a PhD specialising rhetoric, writing, UX, and technical communication) to Amazon (where she designs learning content for cloud application developers). Julie and Anuj talk about how to transfer academic skills that rhetoric, composition, and technical communication students possess to industry contexts. Specifically Julie sheds light on the importance of instructions and tutorials in digital writing based human…
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