TechCommS10


 * Spring 2010 **
 * //Technical Communication (Tech Comm or TC) //**


 * Publisher **: Society for Technical Communication (STC).

Articles are published by some of the most noteworthy professionals in the field, and each issue includes abstracts, editorials, book reviews and a recent and relevant section (Dr. Sherry Southard is the current editor of Recent & Relevant). //Technical Communication// covers issues and applications of technical communication theory spanning across academic and professional forums; educational programs, practice, research, editing, culture, technology, medicine, presentation, assessment, etc. If it’s an issue related to or regarding technical communication, it appears to be covered by //Tech Comm//.


 * Frequency **: Quarterly


 * **Common Issues ** ||
 * PowerPoint Presentation ||
 * Graduate, Undergraduate, Online TC Programs ||
 * Cross Cultural Rhetorical Factors ||
 * Information Architecture ||
 * Research ||
 * Communication ||
 * TC and Open Source Software ||
 * Evaluation/Assessment: Usability, Risk, Program ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Engineering and TC ||


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Date ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Vol **  ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">No. **  ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Issues/Key Phrases **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">11.09  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">56   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">4   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">PowerPoint Common Practice, Open Source in OffShoring. Each Issue Contains Book Reviews, Recent & Relevant  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">8.09  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">56   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">3   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Foundations of a Developing Discipline, Medical Info for U.S. Spanish-Speakers, Mentoring in T.C., Research & Practice of Software Tutorials for Novice ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">5.09  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">56   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">2   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Academic Research & Practitioner Research, China’s T.C. into Historical Context, Assessment of Usability Problems, Verbal-Visual Synergy in Presentation Slides, MA Programs in TC, Applying to MA Programs, Training Students to Become TC Researchers ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">2.09  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">56   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">1   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Editing for the Workplace/Academe/Discipline, Tool for TC – Redux, Marketing Slides for Engineering Presentations, Cultural Contexts in TC, Skills in Recruitment Postings ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">11.08  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">55   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">4   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Qualitative Research, Rhetorical Invention for Visuals, Scientists as Effective Communicators in Gov’t & Business, Heuristic Web Site Evaluation  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">8.08  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">55   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">3   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">3-D Virtual Worlds/Computer Gaming & TC, Human Factors and Real Text in Virtual Worlds  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">5.08  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">55   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">2   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Editing in the Workplace, Cultural Perceptions of Editing, Planning a Taiwanese TCP, How Users Search Web Home Pages ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">2.08  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">55   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">1   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Green Printing, Documentation Practice, Role of TC in Open Source Software Development, Plagiarism & TC  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">11.07  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">54   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">4   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Program Assessments: Why it Matters to Practitioners, Rethinking it in TC, Undergraduate TC Programs, Negotiating Engagement in a TC Program, Informal & Formal Review Strategies, Integrating Context into US TCP’s, QA Process of online TCP, In a Self-Standing Program ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">8.07  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">54   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">3   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Future of TW & Editing, Collaborative Writing Activities, Perceptions of Fonts in PowerPoint, TC & Information Architecture, Motivational Elements to Instruction Manuel for Seniors ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">5.07  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">54   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">2   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Perceptions of Clarity & Attractiveness in PowerPoint, TC & Digital Writing Risk Assessment, Cultural Rhetorical Factors, White Papers in High-Tech Industries, Effectiveness of Online Help Systems, Changing Nature of TC Practice ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">2.07  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">54   ||  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">1   || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Information Architecture: Rethinking IA Frameworks, Success of Customers or Business, Convergence of TC & IA, Evaluation of an Informational Web Site. TC in Shrinking Global Marketplace, Graphics & Invention in Engineering Writing ||