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Editor: Mark Zachry Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc., Philadelphia, PA  Annual subscriptions include four volumes. Annual subscription rate for individuals is $53 and includes membership in the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). The ATTW was founded in 1973 to advance technical communications between educators. Current ATTW members are concerned with advancing all realms of technical communication while working together to support the efforts of new practitioners in various technical communication fields. The ATTW has roughly 1,000 members. ** Common Themes: ** Issue 1: ** Issue 2: ** Issue 3: **** (2005) ** ** A Special Issue about Science and Technology Rhetoric ** || The need for more studies on how science writing impacts its intended audiences; how technical writers can increase the effectiveness of their science rhetoric; ineffectiveness of field-specific science writing in inter-field scientific contexts; how multidisciplinary rhetoric will increase science communication effectiveness; using genetic inquiry to see how published scientific documents were developed; science and technology rhetoric that obscures the philosophy of the craft; the rhetoric of science & technology communication in large organizations. || Issue 4: ** ** Common Themes: ** || ** Common Themes: ** The age of online education from different perspectives and the best practices for Technical communication among trainers and instructors; Online learning and the landscaping of electronic preparedness; An in depth look into Training prospective online instructors in online environments || A Study of Technical Communication teachers acting as mentors within the classroom; A case study of Composition and Professional Writing within the classroom setting; An Analysis of visual Communication and how they convey meaning in specific contexts || || A Case study examining the age of Technical Communication; The Coherence and Mobility of Composition; An examination of managing texts in complex information environments; Collaborating between U.S. and Swedish students in an era of distributed work. || Web Services and the design of virtual women used for web-services; The Discourse of Research at a conservation organization. ||
 * //Technical Communication Quarterly//**
 * Technical Communication Quarterly ** is a peer-reviewed publication that reports on all aspects of technical communication relevant to teachers and practitioners from the academic, business, scientific and government arenas. Topic areas are wide ranging and include: teaching, and learning of technical writing and communication, case studies, and best practices of technical writing and communication within the school and work place.
 * ** Volume 14,
 * (2005) ** || Adapting written communication to the visual/spatial online environment; how explicit document structure makes documents more effective; the rhetorical benefits of decorative color in online writing environments; benefits to technical communication students who learn hypertext composition; creating effective Web sites in international, cross-cultural contexts; models for solving wicked human-computer interaction problems; helping software and Web site developers employ user research methodologies; how words and images create meaning in a multi-disciplinary context; timeless and rhetorical eloquence in online visual images. ||
 * ** Volume 14,
 * (2005) ** || Teaching technical communication skills that readily transfer to workplaces; challenges encountered in cross-cultural teaching and learning situations; visual rhetoric of diagrams designed by Florence Nightingale; metaphoric style of commercial communication from the 1580s; deceptive and misleading corporate privacy-policy statements. ||
 * ** Volume 14,
 * ** Volume 14,
 * (2005) ** || Environmental studies teaching and research within Professional Communication; the role of genre in cross-disciplinary discourse; how research techniques must be applied conditionally rather than statically; how technical communication education must focus on socio-cultural concerns; knowing how people feel about technology so they get more from user experiences. ||
 * Volume 14 key words: ** Activity theory, assumptions in cross-cultural writing, ecocriticism, eloquent images, explicit structure, genetic inquiry, hypertext composition, inter-field science writing, interaction design, multi-major professional communication, persuasive communication, prototype theory, reception studies, rhetoric of misdirection, socio-cultural factors, usability discourse, visual rhetoric.
 * ** Volume 15, Issue1: **
 * (2006) ** || Culture and cultural identity in technical communications, regulatory tactics used in communications, social perspectives and their contexts and uses in communications, what and how different populations and frameworks contribute to communications. ||
 * ** Volume 15, Issue 2: **
 * (2006) ** || The potential for client-based technical writing classes, practical information for students and teachers of technical communication, early forms and uses of technical writing, intercultural communication and practices, engagement in technical communication classrooms and workplaces.
 * ** Volume 15, Issue 3: **
 * (2006) ** || Technology transfer: knowledge, diffusion and implications, innovative IT adoption, intercultural rhetoric and practices, scientific knowledge and its uses for technical communications, organizational work group use of cyber structures and analytical frameworks. ||
 * ** Volume 15, Issue 4: **
 * (2006) ** || Cultural usability and localization, using writing to conduct organizational studies, discussion of the relationship between contact and interactivity, connections between human values and technology. ||
 * Volume 15 key words: ** culture, social perspectives, cultural identity, cross-culture, inter-cultural, critical analysis, tactical technical communication, rhetoric, historical perspectives, teachers, students, clients, technology and technology transfer, pedagogy, usability, management, structure, framework, innovation, scientific knowledge.
 * ** Volume 16, Issue 1: **
 * (2007) ** || A study of online teaching and learning. An in-depth look at the preparation, development and the organization of the communication patterns;
 * ** Volume 16 Issue 2: **
 * (2007) ** || The Globalization of technical communication programs;
 * ** Volume 16, Issue 3: **
 * (2007) **
 * ** Volume 16, Issue 4: **
 * (2007) ** || The Best Practices of Visual Communication within the work place;
 * Volume 16 key words: ** Survey of Practice, Virtual Designs, Knowledge of Advocacy, Online Learning. Globalization, Case study, Professional Writing, Composition, Visual Communication, Specific Contexts, Mobility, Collaboration, Best Practices, Discourse, Complex Information Environments.