We received the following request from the STC’s International Technical Communication SIG.
Han Yu, Assistant Professor, English Department, Kansas State University, and Gerald Savage, Professor, English Department, Illinois State University, are looking for interesting stories from technical communicators to publish in “Negotiating International and Cross-Cultural Technical Communication: Stories of Technical Communicators”.
Summary
We request story proposals of 300 [...]

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admin on January 11th, 2010

The 2010 STC Board of Directors Election is scheduled to run from 9 March 2010 to 8 April 2010. STC members are eligible to vote if they renew by 28 February 2010. Student members are not eligible to vote in Society-level elections, but they are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the candidates. It may be [...]

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admin on August 21st, 2009

We’re on the radio! Our profession, that is. Today, August 21, the beeb (BBC Radio 4) is presenting a half-hour documentary on instruction manuals at 11:00am (London time). One of the interviewees is Simon Butler, President of the ISTC.
If you are not able to tune in on the BBC at that time, you can [...]

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admin on June 1st, 2009

Unfortunately, the STC UK and Ireland chapter has been forced to cancel their planned conference on Accessibility, which was mentioned in an earlier posting.
The UK and Ireland Chapter hope to hold this event at some future date.

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