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
• Freelance and newspaper articles
• My published books
• My Blog! (opens new browser)

 

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)

I created and edited STQe-Letter as one of my parts in the team effort of creating the website StickyMinds.com. It was a companion piece to the website and launched in September 2000 the same week StickyMinds debuted. To see more about how that all started, and to see my archive sampling of many STQe-Letters, click below to go to my STQe-Letter/OurTake archive page. Each STQe-Letter features one of my "Our Take" columns.

• STQe-Letter/OurTake archive page

 

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:

Image from the original Objectives Module overview (2004)

 

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. Click to see my Chatter Archive.

 

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

• Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 2007)

 

Sampling of articles written freelance, as well as when I was a newspaper editor and reporter. Some of these titles are links to an image of the article. For the others, I have 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).
   
  
• "Health Fair Offers Something for Everyone" (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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