Jonathan Price

Author of How to Write a Computer Manual and The Trail Guide to America Online, and co-author with Henry Korman of How to Communicate Technical Information, Dr. Jonathan Price has coached documentation teams in his object-oriented approach to creating hardcopy and electronic information systems for major computer manufacturers in the US and Japan. Dr. Price has authored two dozen books, including two books on technical writing from major publishers, an academic study of electronic outlining, and two other books on writing. He is the co-author of Hot Text: Writing that Works on the Web with his wife Lisa, from New Riders (Pearson). He has assembled and edited special issues about organizing information for the web for two major journals in technical communication, Technical Communication, and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. He has worked professionally in technical communication for 20 years, with an A to Z of clients such as Action, Adobe, Apple, Broderbund, Cadence, Canon, Cisco, Cray, Dell, Epson, eToys, Fujitsu, GO, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Informix, KBKids, Kodak, Lotus, Matsushita, Mindscape, Mitsubishi, NEC, Nikon, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Qronos, Relational, Ricoh, Seybold, Sprint, Sun, Symantec, and Zycad. For a high-level view of his approach to restructuring, see his articles on Structuring Complex Interactive Documents and Complexity Theory as a Way of Understanding our Role in the World Wide Web at www.theprices.com.

Jonathan Price has a Doctorate in Fine Arts from Yale, and a BA from Harvard. He has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level for New York University, the University of Bridgeport, Rutgers, the University of New Mexico, and New Mexico Tech. He has also taught extension classes for Bentley, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSC. He frequently gives workshops and talks at meetings of the Society for Technical Communication, in which he is an Associate Fellow.