TCQS10


 * Technical Communication Quarterly: Topic Overview of Articles From Jan. 2007 Through Jan. 2010 **
 * Donna Absher Engl. 7701-601 Spring 2010 **

The journal, **//Technical Communication Quarterly (TCQ),//** presents papers from a diverse range of technical communicators including teachers, college students and professional communicators from business and industry. The magazine is sent to the membership of The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) as a benefit for joining the group. The only requirement for joining the group seems to be purchasing the journal. ATTW, formed in 1973 has approximately 1000 members, and therefore, the distribution of the journal is also about 1000. In addition to publishing the journal, ATTW serves as a “dynamic resource” for the viewing and posting of job notices, answering calls f or papers, reading news items, and finding materials f or teaching and research. ATTW also hosts an annual conference for the membership.

The purpose of the journal is to provide focused research in technical communication from a broad base of communication specialists including those from academic, scientific, technical, business, governmental and related social organizational venues. Articles published may concern practical or theoretical results of studies. The topics of these studies may include communication design, pedagogical communication, ethics, specific workplace rhetoric (for example in the medical or engineering fields), the practices of publication management, connections between social practices and organizational discourse, and other topics of recent interest. All articles accepted for publication are found to have a sound basis in theory. (1) Posthumanist theory, (1) Technical communication pedagogy (1) Play theory and genre field analysis || Special Issue : Posthumanist Awareness and Theory (using technology to overcome our limits)  || · (1) Alternative media including guerrilla media, (1) Teaching technical communication for science, · (1) Medical rhetoric,  ||   || · (1) Public libraries reposition themselves, · (1) New software tools for note taking, · (1) Social networking software  ||   || (2) Multimodal learning, transtextuality. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Teaching -technical writing online, efficacy || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">  || · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Genetics, interface design and information retrieval, · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Climate Change: using apocalyptic narrative · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Air Quality Partnerships, Lukensmeyer and Torres's “four levels of public involvement,”  || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Special issue : Science and Public Policy <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">  || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">  || · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(2) Analogical reasoning · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">  || · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">writing collaboratively, usability. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) conservation advocacy including gray literature (reports, books, and other texts produced and distributed outside the channels of the academic and publishing industry) || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">  || · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> global collaboration, metaknowledge · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Medical, Technical and Teaching Writing || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Special issue : Communication in the Age of Distributed Work  || · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> (2) Teaching: mentoring, professional identity · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Authority. · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Visual Communication (Maps) || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">  || · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) service learning, · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) single-sourcing  ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Call for Proposals: · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Science and Public Policy <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Pages 135 – 137 || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This analysis of articles in Technical Communication Quarterly makes clear that communication educational outreach, both academic and for business, has extended beyond the borders of the United States to the world. This observation can be seen through a year of articles concerning preparing and implementing on-line learning opportunities in 2007, and through case studies of distributed work and the review of policies and global practices in 2008 and 2009. The year 2010 opens with questions concerning communication not only with members of our own species, but also with machines. I personally look forward to more discourse concerning medical communication with robots for surgery, the interaction of cars and drivers, and of communication between houses and occupants in the smart-grid technologies on the horizon.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume, Issue, Year || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(# of articles) TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY TOPICS   || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Remarks:  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 19, Issue 1, 2010 || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Distributed cognition: human/machine interaction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 18, Issue 4, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Grant proposals writing classification systems,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 18, Issue 3, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Working in network environments,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 18, Issue 2, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) History of ATTW
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 18, Issue 1, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Conservation writing,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 17, Issue 4, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> (2) Teaching usability and user-centered design  || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 17, Issue 3, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(5) online health information; usability, telemedicine design, and medical ethics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 17, Issue 2, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(2) health communication
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 17, Issue 1, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(5) content management and presentation,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 16, Issue 4, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(2 ) visual communication
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 16, Issue 3, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(4) distributed work: (cross-disciplinary work that splices together work activities separated by time, space, organizations, and objectives)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 16, Issue 2, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(1) Globalization, civic engagement in a global context, cultural sensitivity,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Volume 16, Issue 1, 2010 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ||  · <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(3) effective online courses for a global audience,