Melissa Pfau is a 2004 graduate of Middletown High School. After unsuccessfully attempting to get into the journalism concentration through the Media Arts and Design program at James Madison University, Pfau began working in the Technical and Scientific Communication program (now called the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication). In addition to recieving a Bachelor of Arts in Technical and Scientific Communication in 2008, Pfau will be recieving her Master of Science in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication in May 2010. Pfau also minored in Creative Writing. Pfau, as a member of the Society for Technical Communication, was elected the Public Relations Manager where she supervised a small staff of writers and editors to put together a small four-page newsletter to explain new skills that communicators need to have and various chapter events that were happening. Pfau was responsible for a complete redesign of EmD@sh. She graduated with a Master of Science in Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication from James Madison University at the top of her class. Pfau was named the Outstanding Graduate Student for 2010 (an award she earned as an undergraduate student as well). She focused primarily in publications management, but allowed herself to pick up the trade of documentation and document design as well. Now she’s working full time for Poole & Associates (a small government contractor) in Annapolis Junction, Maryland as a technical writer and editor.