Robert Rose-Coutré
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My written work includes a wide array of types and styles. Here is a list of my writing highlights.

Table of Contents

• Software-quality column "Our Take"
• QA/Requirements Article
• Plastic surgery articles
• Technical writing
• Marketing copy and layout
• Internal Company Newsletters
• Mensa for Kids
• Aesthetics and Life
• Freelance and newspaper articles
• My published books

 

My software-quality column "Our Take" appeared twice a month in STQe-Letter, a subscriber-based publication with a circulation of 30,000.

Many columns were selected and published in this "Best of" collection:

• Best of "Our Take" (2000–2003)

 

This QA article is about recognizing the presence of undocumented requirements in software-development projects, with tips on how to capture them:

• Capturing Implied Requirements (October 2007)

 

I wrote the following articles for the Consumer Guide to Plastic Surgery (2005–2007):

• Lap Band Surgery
   
  
• Injectable Fillers
   
  
• Obesity and Weight Loss Surgery
   
  
• Thermage
   
  
• Juvederm
   
  
• ArteFill
   
  
• Laser Tattoo Removal

 

The following are examples of my technical writing:

Downloadable online-help system sample that I created at NMT in 1997:

Online Help System

Downloadable software manual that I created at NMT in 1998:

Software Manual

Software manual for advanced audience of engineers, which I created at NMT in 1997 (Sample page only—printed copy of full manual available upon request):

Software Manual sample page

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Software manual for a software demo used by sales representatives, which I created at NMT in 1998 (Sample page only—printed copy of full manual available upon request):

Software Manual cover page

Printed copy available upon request.

I wrote the initial documentation for a goal-alignment software company's Objectives Module:

Overview of Synygy's Objectives Module

 

The following are samples of my marketing copy and layout:

Two-part promotional piece ("Have StickyMinds.com Delivered to Your Desktop" and "Editor's Pick") — published in STQE magazine, Nov/Dec 2003 Issue:

Promotional piece published in STQE magazine (PDF)

Software program upgrade marketing flier — created at NMT in 1999:

Marketing Flier

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Marketing letter — created at NMT in 1999, delivered to a targeted software-user audience:

Marketing Letter

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Software user-group conference marketing flier — created at NMT in 1999:

Software User-Group Conference Flier

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Product-promotion flier coordinated with industry convention — created at NMT in 1999:

Promotional Flier for Product at Industry Convention

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I was the primary writer, as well as the editor and design/layout person, for two internal company newsletters:

• NM/Times newsletter, NMT Software Development Corporation, 1997–1999 (printed copy available upon request).
   
  
• Chatter newsletter, Municipal Code Corporation, 1987–1989.

 

I wrote and published this article for the "Mensa for Kids" Feature of the Month:

• Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 2007)

 

I wrote and published these two articles for the Camp Archimedes publication Qryptamine:

• Art as Mimesis, Aesthetic Experience, and Orlan (February 2007)
• The Unified Spiritual Faculty (January 2008)

 

Sampling of articles written freelance, as well as when I was a newspaper editor and reporter (printed copies available upon request):

• "Florida's Only Film School Breeds New Generation of Spielbergs" (Florida Flambeau, October 8, 1993).
   
  
• "Louvre Offers Innovative Art in Student-Designed Industrial Structure" (Florida Flambeau, September 10, 1993).
   
  
• "Pride Academy Gives Hope to Disadvantaged" (Florida Flambeau, January 31, 1994).
   
  
• "Centering Ona Cites Beauty as No. 1 Asset" (Onalaska Community Life, June 19, 1997).
   
  
• "Program Aims to Save Horses and Burros through Adoption" (Florida Flambeau, September 8, 1993).
   
  
• "FSU Professor's Book Finds Many Support Euthanasia, Living Wills" (Florida Flambeau, February 4, 1994).
   
  
• "Fair Offers Alternative Health Care Approaches" (Florida Flambeau, September 23, 1993).
   
  
• "Program Gives At-Risk High Schoolers a Taste of College" (Florida Flambeau, November 23, 1993).
   
  
• "Dunlap Fills Vacant Seat on Board" (Holmen Courier, June 12, 1997).
   
  
• "The Oatmeal Cure" (Parents magazine, 1994).
   
  
• "The Homeschooling Trap" (Stay-at-Home Dads magazine, Spring 1996).
   
  
• "A Dark Drink of Life" (Winner of the University of Southwestern Louisiana Ethel Harvey Award for Nonfiction, published in the Deep South Writer's Conference collection [1994] and in the Greenwich Village coffee magazine Cups, No. 80, April 1997).
   
  
• "The Philosophical Model" (New England Writers' Network magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2, Autumn 1997).
   
  
• "Synopsis of a Novel by Oda Makoto" (International Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1995).
   
  
• "Style Matters: Editor Shares Expertise on Writing Style Guides" (Intercom magazine, February 1999).

 

I've written and published two books:

Novel published in 2001:

The Marriage Syndrome

Scholarly book published in 2006:

Abstract Objects, Ideal Forms, and Works of Art

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