Research and Technical Writing
Research and Technical Writing
Project Title: Regulatory eLearning Manual: Aviation Cabin Operations
Client: Corporate Training Provider (Under NDA)
The Challenge: Translating dense Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) regulatory codes and Minimum Equipment Lists (MEL) into accessible, bilingual (English/Hindi) procedural training for cabin crew.
My Role & Process: Authored the complete instructional manual; structured complex compliance data into cause-effect tables; designed summative learning checks aligned with aviation safety standards.
Key Takeaway: Demonstrated ability to author strictly regulated technical documentation subject to government compliance audits.
Link to the quick scroll video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oSp4syfGWKXB8CXN5l9nUlQ5k8CyiQNt/view?usp=sharing
Project Title: Mendeley Reference Manager - Technical User Guide and Process Specification
Target audience: Graduate and postgraduate research scholars, faculty members
Classification: Internal Training Manual
Client/Context: Self-initiated technical writing sample, converted from product overview presentation to structured documentation
The Challenge: A 26-slide product overview presentation contained accurate information but no procedural structure, no task-based organisation, and no technical writing conventions. The target audience (research scholars and graduate students) needed step-by-step guidance, not a marketing overview.
My Role & Process: Conducted a content audit of the source presentation. Reorganised information from feature-based to task-based structure (9 user tasks). Rewrote all content in Microsoft Style; active imperative voice, second person, consistent terminology. Added procedure steps, prerequisites, troubleshooting matrix, and quick reference table. Produced a publication-ready Word document with visual hierarchy, branded colour scheme, and running headers.
Key Takeaway: Technical writing is not simplification. It is restructuring for task completion. The same information reads entirely differently when organised around what the user needs to do, not what the product does.
Link to the user guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lp0t_JjenT92mvpVmGs-tvswNKqYrpyC/view?usp=sharing
Project Title: Process Documentation Sample — Original Analytical Protocol (CMMVI: A 13-Step Protocol for Analysing Verbal Imagery as Cognitive Phenomenon )
Format: Technical specification document with flowchart, decision logic, and phase architecture
Demonstrates: Unambiguous step sequencing, decision tree design, technical prose writing, process documentation to replication standard
The Challenge: Verbal imagery in literary texts has no standardized analytical method in cognitive linguistics. Existing tools (MIPVU, CMT, conceptual blending) are used independently but never integrated into a replicable pipeline. The gap: no protocol that traces an image from concrete sensory input to underlying image-schema.
My Role & Process: Designed an original two-phase protocol integrating construal analysis (Langacker), MIPVU (Steen), Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson), Conceptual Blending Theory (Fauconnier & Turner), and Image Schema Theory. Built a 13-step workflow with decision logic at three branch points. Produced a visual model, process flowchart, and technical specification document submitted for institutional IP review.
Key Takeaway: A replicable, modular analytical framework designed to be applied by trained researchers across literary and non-literary corpora; with extensibility to NLP metaphor identification pipelines.
Link: [ chapter/preprint will be shared once published]
Peer-reviewed work across cognitive stylistics, corpus linguistics and literary studies
Review Article: Review of Soma: Poems by A.K. Ramanujan, ed. Guillermo Rodriguez & Krishna Ramanujan. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Taylor & Francis. (SCOPUS) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2025.2453029 (2025)
Journal Article: A K Ramanujan’s Conceptualization of Poetry and Poetics in the Light of Theory of Embodiment. IUP Journal of English Studies (accepted to be published) (SCOPUS) (2026)
Book Chapter: Painting a World before Language using Language: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of Synaesthetic Metaphors in the Imagery of Keki Daruwalla's 'Before the Word'. In Style and Sense(s). Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-54884-0_8 (2024)
Journal Article: Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of the Tree Metaphor in A.K. Ramanujan's 'Carpe Diem'. Literary Voice. (WEB OF SCIENCE) https://drive.google.com/file/d/157dSua5xn45tpC5lP-rtT3E1mdPaRfxF/view?usp=drive_link (2023)
Journal Article: Text World Analysis of A.K. Ramanujan's 'Of Mothers, Among Other Things'. Research Journal of English (RJOE), Vol. 8. (PEER-REVIEWED) https://drive.google.com/file/d/18i8ZWDC7XX3RKYxxxmFoAU9BhNOCmB1C/view?usp=drive_link (2023)