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Guidelines for the STC Faculty Internship Program 
In partnership with industry and faculty and in keeping with Society goals, grant stipends may be awarded to enable faculty to hold internship positions in industry on approval from the STC’s Board of Directors. An internship is paid full-time short-term employment for novice professionals. The STC Faculty Internship Program is designed to provide grant stipend support to enable full-time technical communication faculty with limited industry experience to accept internship positions in the technical communication industry.
Staples, Katherine E. STC (1998). Academic>Internships
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Strategies in Technical Communication Research
The annual offering of this workshop sponsored by the Education and Research PIC provides consultation for participants interested in conducting research projects. It provides hands-on activities for participants in conducting literature reviews, designing research projects, preparing grant proposals, methods for data collection, methods of data analysis, and reporting research results.
Rainey, Kenneth T., Lottie B. Applewhite, Katherine E. Staples, Christopher E. Velotta and Jan H. Spyridakis. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Research>TC
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Technical Communication from 1950-1998: Where Are We Now? 
The changes in technical communication education between 1950 and 1998 have led to disciplinary maturity: the development of academic programs and of a body of innovative research. This disciplinary maturity parallels the professional identity and growth of numbers of technical communication practitioners. As a thriving multidiscipline with many direct research and pedagogical connections to the workplace, technical communication can uniquely influence workforce values, providing a new, evolving disciplinary model for higher education. However, technical communication’s disciplinary maturity also means a movement away from practice and from the service course, the foundations of technical communication as a discipline and the sources of its workplace influence.
Staples, Katherine E. Technical Communication Quarterly (1999). Articles>TC>History
