RCG4ssJBTCF2008

Activity: Recent Content in TPC Journals and Publications Journal: Journal of Business and Technical Communication (JBTC) // Journal of Business and Technical Communication // (JBTC) is published quarterly (January, April, July, October) by Sage Publications. The subscription rate is $118.00 for individuals and $596.00 for institutions.


 * Target Audience ** : Educators, researchers, scholars, managers, technicians and practitioners


 * Focus ** : Written, oral and electronic communication in all areas of business, science and government. Key topics/issues include managerial communication, collaborative writing, ethics of business communication, technical writing, pedagogy, business-communication education, gender differences in writing, international communication, graphic design, ethnography and corporate culture.

JBTC publishes article-length studies, approaches and practices, commentaries, book and software reviews and comments and responses. Articles, approaches and practices and comments are refereed. At least one round of revision is common for accepted manuscripts.

JTBC has frequently won the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) award presented nationally for excellence in publications in technical and scientific communication.


 * Regular features ** : 1) Articles (latest results of research); 2) Approaches and Practices (instructional tips and industrial how-to); 3) Commentary (opinion pieces addressing issues important to profession; 4) Book and Software Review; 5) Comments and Responses; 6) Annual Index (easy reference to authors and titles).

Key phrases from January 2006 – October 2008 (Volumes 20, 21 & 22) || E-mail talk and information overload; role/function of intranet in multinational company; less theory/more technology in organizational communication; reorienting business communications; challenges/opportunities of new technology in corporate communications. ||  || Recommended articles from past journals; transferring technical communication from classroom to workplace; development/implementation of content-management systems; role of writing in post-Soviet republics and impact on Western assumptions; effectively writing assignment names as pedagogy tool. ||  || Writing across the curriculum; writing in disciplines promotes learning; epideictic science rhetoric celebrates scientific method. ||  || || Special issue on business and technical communication in public sphere. Advocacy empowers victims; supporting public involvement with environmental rhetoric; public remapping of police policy; communicating complex research to public. ||  ||
 * ** Journal of Business and Technical Communication (JBTC) **
 * ** Jan 2006 **
 * Vol. 20, No. 1 ** || Communication practice/norms in organizations; balancing ethos of liberal arts and practical writing skills; benefit of technology-humanistic relationship; understanding indirect style of Chinese writing. ||  ||
 * ** Apr 2006 **
 * Vol. 20, No. 2 ** || Key phrases: Case presentations; formative evaluation of document design; adding motivational elements to instructions; challenges of being lone faculty in technical communications. ||  ||
 * ** Jul 2006 **
 * Vol. 20, No. 3 ** || Special issue on communication challenges from new technology.
 * ** Oct 2006 **
 * Vol. 20, No. 4 ** || Learning from early technical editors; transferring one genre successfully to another; using embedded voice comments as feedback in online writing class. ||  ||
 * ** Jan 2007 **
 * Vol. 21, No. 1 ** || Special 20th Anniversary Issue.
 * ** Apr 2007 **
 * Vol. 21, No. 2 ** || Boundary work creates integration and understanding; role of language in organizational identity; impact of positive/negative in perception of book review; ethics. ||  ||
 * ** Jul 2007 **
 * Vol. 21, No. 3 ** || Special issue on writing in the disciplines.
 * ** Oct 2007 **
 * Vol. 21, No. 4 ** || Using visual rhetoric to understand genres; pedagogical practices to develop verbal and visual thinking; improving teaching assistants written evaluations; cross-cultural interaction improves multicultural group learning. ||  ||
 * ** Jan 2008 **
 * Vol. 22, No. 2 ** || Issues managing communication specialist; workplace writing: written products for different environments; new media development; learning in hybrid course ||  ||
 * ** Apr 2008 **
 * Vol. 22, No. 2 ** || Critique as communication; engineering communication; analysis of introductions as oral presentations; historical communication influenced beliefs about race; using problem-based learning to teach students intercultural business communication. ||  ||
 * ** Jul 2008 **
 * Vol. 22, No. 3 **
 * ** Oct 2008 **
 * Vol. 22, No. 4 ** || Intercultural communications theory; transforming marketing strategy in crises; using qualitative methods in technical communications; pedagogy of cross-cultural managerial communication. ||  ||