Author: Toluwani Odedeyi

Addison Kliewer did not initially plan to become a technical writer. As an undergraduate honors student majoring in English at the University of Texas, Austin, he envisioned an academic career in publishing, teaching, or even writing books. He was drawn to how storytelling can be enriching and insightful, fascinated by how clothing symbolized identity and status in classic literature like Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels. Multiple visits to his university’s career center where he learned about technical writing, along with his parents’ guidance (two former technical writers), changed everything. It wasn’t the writing career he had originally envisioned, but the…

Hi, I’m Toluwani! From a young age, I had an innate interest in finding elegant solutions to communication problems. Growing up in Nigeria, I crafted fictional stories that brought characters to life, using nothing but pencil and paper. As I grew older, I immersed myself in exploring Microsoft Word, so I could turn these paper and pencil works into digital formats by typing and describing the narrative images using my father’s desktop computer. This early creativity allowed me to express and share the unique experiences of young Nigerian kids with my friends and family in beautiful multimodal presentations. As I…