#20881
Professional Writing Mentoring
The main objective of this practicum is to encourage your pedagogical, technical, and professional development.
Romberger, Julia and Kate Agena. Purdue University (2003). Academic>Courses>Graduate>Education
#21039
Professional Writing Practicum/Cooperative Education
This course is designed to provide you with professional experience outside of the standard classroom.
Williamson, William J. University of Northern Iowa (2003). Academic>Courses>Writing>Business Communication
#29584
A list of all programs in scientific and technical communication. The titles of some programs may include related names such as professional writing or professional communication.
#25446
This form shows a generic, fill-in-the-blank evaluation form for small- and medium-sized projects.
Barker, Thomas. Texas Tech University (2004). Academic>Course Materials>Project Management
#18473
Project Management for Professional Publications 
Managing technical publications—whether they be paper-based, web-based, or any of many electronic forms—requires skills in scheduling, budgeting, managing people, and the like. To that end, the core of the course will prepare the students to assume management roles in various businesses, industries, or governmental agencies.
Warren, Thomas L. Oklahoma State University (2002). Academic>Courses>Management>Project Management
#13021
Proposal to Support ABET Accreditation for Technical Communication Programs
The Ad Hoc Committee on Accreditation recommends that the IEEE Professional Communication Society act as the sponsoring cognizant technical society to present technical communication program criteria to the Related Accreditation Commission (RAC) of Accreditation Body for Engineering and Technology (ABET). This report contains the background documentation for this recommendation.
Davis, Marjorie T., Leslie Olsen and Mark P. Haselkorn. Mercer University (1998). Academic>Education>Assessment>Engineering
#25881
Publishing and Its Implications, 1688-2005
One definition of rhetoric is the study of relationships between writers and readers. This course will review changes in publishing from 1688 to the present, considering implications for writers (particularly professional communicators), publishing, and reading audiences. The course will learn about, then examine in detail, the social impact of key innovations from this period.
Sauer, Geoffrey. Iowa State University (2005). Academic>Courses>History>Publishing
#18242
Publishing on the Cheap: One Idea That Worked
For computer centers to eliminate paper documentation is cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
Durack, Katherine T. ACM SIGDOC (1992). Academic>Computing>Publishing
#10246
Put Your Portfolio on the Fast Track
Amongst pomp and circumstance, many graduates are hitting the pavement this spring looking for that pie-in-the-sky job at the dot-coms, design studios and graphic arts firms. Each year the Design and Publishing Center get dozens and dozens of phone calls, letters and resumes all touting the awesome talent and experience of each new crop of graduates. We tip our hats to you with a little advice.
#31880
Quick Reference Guides: The Poetry of Technical Writing
How many times have you written a 75+ page guide and heard the customer say, This is great, but can you give us a condensed version? After the third or fourth time I’d heard this, I decided to actually try it.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2008). Academic>Documentation>Writing>Technical Writing
#10770
Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing
This handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. The first part of the handout compares and contrasts the terms, while the second part offers a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills.
#25650
This scholarship is granted by the society to a student or students of photographic or imaging science or engineering for use in continuing their studies as graduate or undergraduate students. This grant is made for academic study or research in the theory or practice of image formation by radient energy.
Society for Imaging Science and Technology, The. Academic>Scholarships>Graphic Design
#19106
Re-Visioning and Repositioning Technical Communication Programs in Digital Spaces 
As society increasingly inhabits digital spaces in addition to physical places, the environment in which technical communication programs are developed undergoes fundamental change. To a large extent, these changes occur because networked digital spaces exhibit different dynamics, dimensions, and characteristics than do physical places. For example, while physical places have three dimensions, digital spaces are unlimited in their dimensions, connections, and relationships. In such spaces, different entities, such as people, agents, objects, technologies, and information relate to each other in unlimited numbers and ways. With this capacity, digital spaces allow for the nearly instant aggregation of mega-structures called portal technologies, which command the lion's share of traffic in these spaces. According to Adamic and Huberman, digital spaces thus follow what they call a 'universal power law,' resulting in a winner-take-all environment.
Starke-Meyerring, Doreen. CPTSC Proceedings (2000). Academic>Education
#14505
Read It Or Skip It? The Textbook's Preface 
An informal survey of 18 modern technical writing textbook prefaces finds 75 to 100 percent of them tell readers the books meet students’ needs, contain special topics, have unique philosophies, emphasize the practical, contain sample documents, teach specific types of writing, and contain sections on computers and/or document design. Also, 50 to 75 percent of the prefaces state the books address ethical/legal issues, oral presentations, resumes/ job applications, corporate culture, and punctuation and/or grammar. Such repetitious content in textbook prefaces reduces their usefulness during the textbook selection process.
Ryan, Charlton. STC Proceedings (1994). Academic>Course Materials>Textbooks
#21972
The course provides a Humanities perspective on web design. It introduces students to basic issues and practices of web design, but also examines how web pages can be seen as texts that are amenable to rhetorical and cultural analysis. Web sites embody 'architectures', which as MIT professor of architecture William Mitchell notes, raise many of the same issues of access, assembly, use, control, and community formation that occur with urban planning. We will thus not only practice designing web pages, but we will also consider methods for interpreting and analyzing web sites.
Werry, Chris. San Diego State University. Academic>Courses>Web Design>Writing
#14264
After you begin your career, your professional development activities will affect your potential to succeed. While you may engage in many activities specific to your discipline, reading and understanding professional and technical information will always be important. It would be a mistake to overlook this important skill that can be improved by developing strategic reading practices. In this exercise, you will read a scientific text—employing appropriate reading strategies—and then summarize that information for another reader who is less willing to invest time in the document. To write an effective summary, you must have a reading strategy that will allow you to quickly understand the purpose of the document, the hierarchy of its argument, its applications, and the limits of the author’s claims.
Burnett, Rebecca E. Thomson (2001). Academic>Course Materials
#13137
The 'Real World' Experience: Academe and Industry Collaboration
Three technical communicators -- an entrepreneur, a university professor, and a newly hired employee and recent graduate -- discuss the collaborative environment they’ve created among industry practitioners and academia.
Blakeslee, Ann M., John Moreau and Catherine M. Titta. STC Proceedings (2001). Presentations>Collaboration>Academic
#20130
Redefining Curriculum and Research Initiatives: A New Model of University Industry Partnership
Our profession is changing daily, and this growth has an impact on industry, and our universities, who must address the academic requirements this change brings with it. We must work as a team 10 share plans, develop cooperative solutions, and direct our energy and resources to a common goal: developing quality programs that will bring us beyond the leading edge of our technical profession.
Hans, David F., Roger A. Grice, Edward J. See and Robert Krull. STC Proceedings (1996). Articles>Collaboration>Academic
#19109
Reflective Instrumentalism as a Possible Guide for Revising a Master's Degree Reading List
Although we only used Durst's model as an initial starting point to help us articulate one of the main tensions in our revision process and then basically abandoned it, the final reading list we generated--although not perfect--does reveal a degree of 'reflective instrumentalism.' Students who have seen the new list make positive comments about it because the list manages to bring what seem to be opposite poles--reflection and instrumentalism--into a single reading list that represents the current state of our discipline. Although we seemed during the process have lost sight of our model, our list, though not perfect, does seem to represent reflective instrumentalism.
Williams, Sean D. CPTSC Proceedings (2000). Academic>Education>Graduate
#14803
Regulations Governing Internships
The MTSC internship, an integral part of this program, is intended to provide students with supervised, first–hand experience at applying what they have learned in their classes to the kinds of professional situations they will encounter in their careers. Internships are also designed to help students gain or extend their direct, personal knowledge of the profession and its practices.
#19232
You work for a mid-sized company that has about 700 employees. It is Wednesday afternoon. You learn from a reliable source that your company has just been bought out, but the public announcement will not be made until Friday afternoon. The company’s stock is currently selling at $15 per share. It will certainly jump to $20 within hours of the announcement. You and your spouse have been saving over the past year to buy a house, and have a sizable nest egg of nearly $20,000 in the bank. Your company already has over 20 million shares of its stock outstanding, and tens of thousands of shares are traded every day. No one is likely to notice if an employee were to buy 1000 shares. What do you do? Explain your actions and reasons in writing.
Lannon, John M. Pearson Education (2003). Academic>Course Materials>Ethics
#26797
Researchers Find Social Bonds to Be Important in Distance Education
An article about community among students in online higher education programs.
Carnevale, Dan. Chronicle of Higher Education (2000). Academic>Education>Online
#14273
There are enormous advantages and disadvantages to using the Internet as a source for research. The Internet can be a very convenient way of finding up-to-the-minute data quickly and easily; however, it can also present difficulties for researchers, as it is not edited (as newspapers and magazines are). Anyone with the knowledge and access to a server can publish anything. As a result, it’s difficult to know whether your sources are reliable. Ideally, of course, the Internet should be used in conjunction with more traditional resources like journals and newspapers. (You should generally use as many types of reliable sources as possible in your research.) For this exercise, you will be searching for information on the Internet (preferably about a topic you’re working on in this or another class) and reporting on the search and the results. Your purpose in reporting on your search will be to recommend to your audience, which should be another student or even a professor in your field, whether or not she or he should use the Internet as a source for research. If so, how can she or he use the Internet most effectively for researching in your field? If not, why not?
Burnett, Rebecca E. Thomson (2001). Academic>Course Materials>Online
#13771
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: Conferences and Events List
A directory of upcoming academic conferences in online community and cyberculture studies.
#29209
Results of a Survey of ATTW Members, 2003 
This article presents the results of an April 2003 electronic survey of ATTW members. Results and interpretations are categorized as follows: a professional profile of respondents; member observations about ATTW and its activities (member participation, appraisal of benefits, and preferred topics for TCQ); and current issues and views of the field's future.
Dayton, David and Stephen A. Bernhardt. Technical Communication Quarterly (2004). Articles>TC>Academic>Surveys
