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 ** Karen S. Green and Laverne S. Williams **  ** ENGL 7701 Research Methods in Technical and Professional Communication **  ** Project 1.6: Determining Recent Content in Technical & Professional Works ** ** Journal Title **// : Technical Communication //

** Scope: ** Technical Communication publishes articles about the practical application of technical communication theory and serves as a common arena for discussion by practitioners. //Technical Communication// includes both quantitative and qualitative research while showcasing the work of some of the field's most noteworthy writers. Among its most popular features are the helpful book reviews.

** Publishing Frequency: ** Quarterly

** Publisher: ** The //Society for Technical Communication// (STC)

** Governance: ** STC is governed on a Society level by an elected board of directors. In addition to the Society leaders, each of STC's more than 130 local chapters elects a set of officers. ** Strategic Plan Goals **
 * Ensure the long-term viability of the organization
 * Communicate the value of technical communication and STC
 * Define the profession of technical communication
 * Establish and expand strategic partnerships
 * Globally improve the practice of technical communication

** Membership: ** Membership consists of approximately 14,000 technical writers and editors, content developers, documentation specialists, technical illustrators, instructional designers, academics, information architects, usability and human factors professionals, visual designers, Web designers and developers, and translators - anyone whose work makes technical information available to those who need it. Membership provides opportunities for ongoing learning and professional networking and promotes the public welfare by educating its members and industry about issues concerning technical communication. ** TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION - TOPIC FOCUS BY YEAR 2008-2010 ** || Year  ||  Issue Number/Article Keywords  ||  Special Issue Keywords  ||  Special Issue Focus  || Vol.57 || **//1//**: Academic practitioner partnership, STC history, writing development narratives, software, Web-based radiology, usability, code level procedural programming, copyright laws, mixed methods study, plagiarism, chilled speech, digital survey, Web writers, ethics, government exception, capabilities, Wikis, organizational communication, collaborative editing, media choice theories, refactoring capabilities.
 * Topics of Most Recent Issue (November 2010): **Developments in Technical Communication; Single-Sourcing and Content Management; Creating Educational Websites for Children.
 * 2010

**//2//**: Marketing communication, traditional media, new media communication, genre systems, technical communication companies, Web sites, consultants and independent contractors, search engine optimization, robots, communication business websites, user-centered design process, personalized systems, audience analysis, electronically-tailored communication, Quikscan, reading comprehension, usable online documents.

**//4//**: Content management methods, job stress, innovation adoption curve, technology transfer, children online, CARES playground, educational websites (Most recent issue-November 2010). || **//3//**: Executive Order 13166, graphic design, localization, limited English proficient populations, international clinical trials, informed consent, user-centered design, international regulations, law and culture, regulatory authorities, legal and cultural contexts, internet, intellectual property law, globalization, cultural differences, government surveillance, authorized and unauthorized media, digital rights, Actor Network Theory. || Legal issues in global contexts ||

Vol.56 || **//1//**: Workplace editing, textual and visual aspects of communication, empirical and analytical search techniques, applied academic discipline, professional printers, Redux, engineering, marketing slides, text and illustrations, Power Point, deck authors, technical presentations, cultural contexts, theoretical framework, Sino-German, employers, recruitment, domain-specific knowledge, basic technical writing skills.
 * Year ||  Issue Number/Article Keywords  ||  Special Issue Keywords  ||  Special Issue Focus  ||
 * 2009

**//2//**: Practitioner usability of research articles, generalizability of research findings, Chinese culinary instruction, culinary texts, usability problems, cognitive shortcuts, reader empathy, verbal-visual synergy, persuasive graphics, oral presentation slides, goal-based scenarios, online learning environment design, TC Master’s programs report, graduate school programs by state, Ph.D., directed research groups, college students, technical communication researchers. || **//4//**: Power Point, multimedia learning, assertion-evidence slide structure, open source software, offshore contexts, Interactivity Online Version 2.0, gaming, procedural architecture, writing for development, communication scholarship and technologies, developing countries, global audiences, action research intervention, governmental social service workers.

**//3//**: Agile software, user-centered design and development, usability, Mexican and U.S. Spanish speakers, focus groups, health information, mentoring technical communication students, online survey, printed software tutorials, refinements in design, usability. || Globalization and emerging online technologies

Accessibility of information to disparate groups ||

Vol.55 || **//1//**: Green printing, environment, vegetable-based materials, Green Market, lightweight literate programming, software documentation and coding, history of LLP, writer/programmers, single-sourcing methods, open-sourced software development, usability, user-centered design principles, democratized technology, system-centered design approach, playing cards, technical and scientific information, audience adaptation organizational patterns, ethical practices, plagiarism treatment, revising plagiarism policies, dissonance, classroom.
 * Year ||  Issue Number/Article Keywords  ||  Special Issue Keywords  ||  Special Issue Focus  ||
 * 2008

**//2//**: Workplace editing, editing process, survey results, editorial mode, cultural perceptions of editing, non-native English speakers, Taiwanese technical communication, universities abroad, global industry, general programmatic goals, cultural influences, Web search home pages, multiple navigation menus, links, audience organized, organized by topics, web sites. || **//3//**: 3-D, virtual worlds, technical communication tools, Second Life, There, Qwag, Sweden, virtual embassy, information architecture, Cybertown, multi-user dungeons, MUDs, MOOs, IM, game worlds, computer gaming, mapping game activity, theory-building in technical communication, literature, game worlds, social worlds, cyber-space, educational content, technical and learning content, designing virtual worlds, instructional designers, human factors, real text, visual/three-dimensional presentation.

**//4//**: Qualitative online research, contemporary technical communication practice, visual rhetorical invention and implications, writers, designers, engineers, managers, single-source documentation, cardiac devices, complex document review processes, scientists, government, business, scientific communication pedagogy, undergraduate/graduate, scientific communication training, white papers, engineering, consulting, theoretical framework, Web 2.0, conducting qualitative research, social networking, websites, single-sourcing, content management systems, participatory research ideals, traditional methods. || Teaching and learning in virtual environments

Qualitative Research in Technical Communication ||