Mellissa Ruryk is a senior technical communicator with over 20 years' experience in writing for software development, financial, oil and gas and engineering clients. She is the immediate past co-manager of the Instructional Design Special Interest Group, past president of the Canada West Coast chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, a judge/evaluator for STC Community Achievement Awards, Pacesetters Awards and has acted as judge for the International Summit Awards and is a judge on the panel for the IDL SIG’s new Student Outreach article writing competition. Mellissa runs her own freelance technical communication business in Vancouver, BC and is currently exploring the world of API documentation to remain relevant and employed! Talk to me about: Instructional Design and Learning, Flare, Word, Plain language, Editing, Mentoring, Volunteering to keep STC healthy and strong!!