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 * //Journal of Technical Writing and Communication//**

**Editor:** Charles H. Sides **Publisher:** Baywood Publishing Co., Amityville, NY  Annual subscriptions include four volumes. Annual subscription rate for individuals is $102. Articles are also available online. Individual online rate is $97. The **Journal of Technical Writing and Communication** was founded in 1971 and publishes communications research from the realms of business, science and technology; it presents current communications theory in areas such as visual communication, information design, visual rhetoric, and linguistics; and it promotes workplace understanding of computer-based applications, technical writing, audience demographics, and effective rhetoric. The target audience is wide ranging and includes people interested in computer applications, online presentations, audience analysis, and technical writing, as well as researchers concerned with communications and theory in a wide range of disciplines.

**Common Themes:** social and personal benefits of building community history Web sites; how peer review positively effects student writing; visual communication in a changing technological environment. || cultural factors that influence international online interactions; structuring journal article titles to increase reader understanding. || || ||
 * ** Volume 35, Issue1: **
 * (2005) ** || Non-linear rhetoric forms for creating effective visuals; natural science communication models in technical communications; new technical communications models in government studies;
 * ** Volume 35, Issue 2: **
 * (2005) ** || Analyzing Web site discourse using linguistic theory; improving software user guides through iconic linkage writing; evaluating user perceptions of real-world communication methods;
 * ** Volume 35, Issue 3: **
 * (2005) ** || Comparing visual and verbal presentation styles; subtracting feminine writing attributes from scientific discourse; analyzing typeface to set the correct tone for documents; observing how on-screen note taking influences online writing.
 * ** Volume 35, Issue 4: **
 * (2005) ** || Some negative social impacts of virtual discourse communities; negotiating public and private space in the age of cell phones; workplace email effectiveness measured as a function of user experience; multi-discipline analyses of gender and Internet research studies.
 * Volume 35 key words: ** Student peer-evaluation, stage-setting of visuals, natural language, readability formulas, Internet in public service, dialogism and monologism, iconic linkage, international outsourcing, plain style discourse, letterforms, typeface personality, on-screen note taking, virtual discourse, social topography, email digital divide.

** Common Themes: ** ||
 * ** Volume 36, Issue1: **
 * (2006) ** || Importance of usability and readability of technical writing, purpose and motive of communications, design and visual graphic enhancement, writing for global audiences, education and the teaching of technology as relates to communications. ||
 * ** Volume 36, Issue 2: **
 * (2006) ** || Studies of visual and verbal representations in communications, humanistic rationales for technical writing, discussion of “color line” and feminism, historical contexts of technical writing, government involvement and the politics of technical writing. ||
 * ** Volume 36, Issue 3: **
 * (2006) ** || Context and culture in technical communications, engineering organizations and industries, technology and students of technical communication, timesaving strategies for technical communications, teaching and distance education, utilizing new technology of technical communications vs. traditional lecture. ||
 * ** Volume 36, Issue 4: **
 * (2006) ** || Increasing use of technology in the technical communications classroom, discourse as instrumental in technical communication, using historical information to analyze graphics (cultural-based graphics), network analysis.
 * Volume 36 key words: ** ethics, technology, rhetoric and discourse, design, internet, communications, technical writing, globalization, cross-cultural communication, usability, hardware, software, computers, teaching and education, creativity, theme, structure, visuals and graphics, information, audiences, gender, government, context.

** Common Themes: ** The Non-rule policy becoming a new style of writing that adds body to technical writing in the government atmosphere; XTM writing becoming a self-directed form of writing used to problem solve in the technical field; The added value features of online scholarly journals enhancing the ease of use with data; Conducting a case study in order to assess job competence; Assessing the taxonomy of titles and names within the technical communication field. || Issue 2: ** Localizing, explaining, and translating in order to adapt a document for a certain culture; Comparing the relationship between written and spoken communication; Structuring a job-related intranet for a case study; Comparing rhetorical appeals in written documents for a major airline. || Issue 3: ** Examining the basics of content analysis and how they explore hidden connections and reveal relationships that seem somewhat unconnected; The numerous editions and revisions to The Steel Bible; The evaluation of user-guides in terms of content, structure organization, and pictures; The prediction of student needs to aide teachers in communicating; Extension of boundaries in the classroom to expand learning beyond textbooks. || Issue 4: ** A visual and verbal study conducted to cue student’s microscopy learning; A comparison of 4 medical journals to reveal that much of the journal space is dedicated to flow charts, photographs and misc. graphics; The best practices for handling insulin research; A study of multi-modal and how it helps scientists communicate in their field more efficiently. ||
 * ** Volume 37, Issue1: **
 * (2007) ** || Use of pathos in charity letters to compel Americans to donate billons of dollars to charities a year;
 * ** Volume 37,
 * (2007) ** || Assessing the component of scholarly textbooks for teaching a technical writing course;
 * ** Volume 37,
 * (2007) ** || Comparing the relevance of critical theory applications to strengthen the field of technical communication;
 * ** Volume 37,
 * (2007) ** || A conducted study of learning science by drawing and observing as opposed to just reading;
 * Volume 37 key words: ** Rhetorical Appeals, Environmental Policy, Non-academic genres, Expressive Technical Writing, Exploratory Writing, Facilitating data, Scholarly Journals, North American transit Authority, Activity Case Study, Taxonomy, Intercultural Component, Quality of Writing, Intranet, Qualitative text analysis, Critical theory, usability testing, Medical Tables, Multimodal Analysis.