#23876
Publishing Newsletters on Paper or Online: A Profile of How Three Chapter Editors Did It
The switch to web delivery meant that we no longer had to restrict the newsletter to black and white, and we were no longer limited to four pages (a folio) or a multiple of four pages. An end to the cost constraints imposed by printing also allowed more creative formatting and the use of color.
Wilson, Scott. Usability Interface (2003). Articles>Publishing>Online>Newsletters
#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
#30744
Quality Control in Scholarly Publishing on the Web 
As scholars and researchers, we are often called upon to separate the high-quality materials from the bad. What are the methods by which quality control is established and what are the indicators that allow a user to recognize the good materials?
Arms, William Y. Journal of Electronic Publishing (2002). Articles>Publishing>Research>Online
#27462
Real Costs Of Technical Publications 
This workshop shows a technical publication manager or rising professional how to work in the following technical publishing/financial areas: project management, operating budget preparation and management, and quality control.
Caernarven-Smith, Patricia. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Publishing>Technical Writing>Project Management
#20163
Reality Bytes -What the Information Superhighway Won't Deliver
Today, information technology has deluged us with not only a torrential flood of information but also a multitude of ways in which to display, package, and disseminate this information. With the proliferation of computer technology and the vigorously-and somewhat fanatically-promoted paperless and faceless virtual society of the fiture, we are faced with somewhat frightening challenges.
Dahm, Rea Etta M. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Publishing>Online
#30330
The demand for recycled paper is on the rise and more and more paper manufacturers are producing recycled paper in the same categories and range of choices as virgin stock. However, because of the variations and inconsistencies in the raw materials used, paper that contains recycled fiber tends to he at the middle to lower quality levels of each paper grade.
Boston Broadside (1992). Articles>Publishing>Prepress>Paper
#29210
Reflections on Technical Communication Quarterly, 1991-2003: The Manuscript Review Process 
This article traces the development of Technical Communication Quarterly (TCQ), beginning with the first issue in the winter of 1991, through the 2003 issues. As co-editor of TCQ, charged with the manuscript review process, I shepherded more than 350 manuscripts through evaluation and about one-fourth of those through publication. In this article, I explain that process and how it changed when The Technical Writing Teacher became TCQ and what features our reviewers now believe make a successful TCQ article.
Lay, Mary M. Technical Communication Quarterly (2004). Articles>Research>Publishing>History
#24313
This workshop gives you a structured way of thinking about your newsletter. We’ll go through the key questions you need to pose, both to yourself and to your colleagues. What goals do you have for the newsletter? Who is the audience? What personality do you want to project? What’s the name, and what’s in a name? Who will write the articles? Who will edit them? Who will design the newsletter? How will it be distributed? Which tasks will you do yourself; which will you delegate; how much time will it all take?
Grodsky, Susan J. STC Proceedings (1998). Articles>Publishing>Community Building>Newsletters
#31350
During 1990–2002, the journal Current Science has published 291 review articles: biological sciences 135, medical sciences 53, physical sciences 31, chemical sciences 30, agricultural sciences 27, and geological sciences 15. Author synchronous self-references in each biological sciences review article and diachronous Science Citation Index (SCI) citations per review article have correlation 0.4. Recency for synchronous self-references was six years and one month, whereas half-life considering diachronous SCI citations was two years and five months. Review articles receiving ten or more SCI citations are identified. Editors of science journals may take into consideration recency while approving review submissions.
Kalyane, V.L., Anil Kumar, Anil Sagar, Anjali Prabhu, C.R. Gaderao, E.R.Prakasan, Lalit Mohan, Nita Bhaskar, Rajiv Gupta, Sanjay Kumar Singh and Vijai Kumar. International Journal for Technical Communication (2008). Articles>Research>Publishing
#13665
Rock, Paper, Stone: The Biz Stone Guide to Independent Publishing
People have things to say. Maybe you're one of them, struggling to get a voice through the bottleneck that is big publishing. Maybe you're a talented individual who would write more if you had a forum. Maybe you're an expert in certain areas but all that insightful content stays trapped within you because you don't have an outlet. Oh, but you do. Today's Web is fertile soil for independent publishing. Not only is it easy to get your voice out there, but your voice is also heard, acknowledged, and in many cases responded to by interested, intelligent readers who have discovered your work because they sought it out and are happy to have found it. This low barrier to publishing gets you writing, and that's important.
Stone, Biz. Digital Web Magazine (2002). Articles>Publishing>Online
#23092
Saving Paper: —It's Like Printing Money
Wofford demonstrates several methods for saving paper that can help technical communicators cut the costs of paper usage.
Wofford, Tracey Norden. Intercom (2004). Design>Publishing>Online
#22358
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between 1990 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet.
Bailey, Charles W. Jr. University of Houston. Resources>Bibliographies>Publishing>Online
#13220
Scholarly Publication as an Indicator of Change
This paper reviews literature from several different theoretical perspectives that examine scholarly publication as an indicator of disciplinary change. From bibliometric citation analyses to genre and rhetorical analyses, many academic fields have analyzed the artifacts of scholarly publication. These crossdisciplinary perspectives provide theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the relationships between journal publication and knowledge production within an academic field. These approaches can aid technical communication scholars and practitioners understand the history of technical communication scholarship and where technical communication scholarship may be headed in the future. provide scientists and engineers with technical writing instruction.
Allen, Liza. STC Proceedings (2000). Academic>Publishing
#29093
Scientific Articles in Internet Homepages: Assumptions Upon Lay Audiences
This article studies a set of scientific/technical articles published in Internet homepages. Focusing upon current trends on genre theory and the functional approach deployed by Halliday and Martin [1], linguistic features and schematic structure are analyzed in relation to more standard genres. The structural analysis suggests that these kind of texts imaginatively realize and assume the standpoint and main tenets of a lay audience that just consumes specific genres, most being analogous to the persuasive, manipulative, amusement-oriented genres of TV news stories, tabloids, and commercials. It is pondered that much of the "technological utopianism" (term used by Kling [2] surrounding the ever increasingly standardized Internet discourse turns the Internet into a productive vehicle to sustain technoscience as modern myth by spreading and forging that utopian imagery into the audience's consciousness, and that scientists are taking fruitful advantage of the utopian, futurist, and often sensationalist accounts of the Internet as a formidable frame to advertise themselves and the deeds achieved in their laboratories.
Gonzalez-Pueyo, Isabel and Alicia Redrado. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (2003). Articles>Research>Publishing>Online
#22637
Scientific Writing: An Editor’s Overview
How you write a paper depends on where you want to submit it.
Szuromi, Phil. AAAS. Presentations>Scientific Communication>Publishing
#22422
Review: Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
If you like to think about your work philosophically, or even if you don't, David M. Levy's book tackles some of the big questions in our profession: paper versus digital, reading versus viewing, libraries versus the Web, brick and mortar schools versus distance education. And the great thing about the book is that he thinks you don't have to choose between one or the other in each of these apparent dichotomies; in fact, what's needed is a balance between the two.
Crawley, Charles R. Technical Communication Online (2003). Articles>Reviews>Publishing>Online
#19806
A Shortcut for Selecting Online Publishing Tools for UNIX
Online publishing is beginning to boom thanks to recent technology developments. On Unix platforms, the variety of tools available for developing online documents can be confusing. The confusion eases considerably when you realize that the tools are of two types: those that emphasize searching the document's text and those that emphasize presenting the document's information. A third type of tool, designed specifically for online publishing, will become available on Unix platforms soon. Someone looking for an online publishing tool can quickly narrow the selection by considering which of these types best fits the application.
Harvey, Patrick. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Publishing>Software>UNIX
#13334
Should You Check In Your Textbooks and Check Out an eBook?
The development of the electronic book (eBook) has offered an alternative to the traditional printed text medium. The advantages of the eBook, such as increased storage capacity (10-250 texts per eBook), decreased storage space and weight, and decreased cost of production to the consumer, make it an attractive option for consumers. In addition, previous research has indicated no significant differences exist for reading speed and reading comprehension between paper and eBook presentation (Selvidge & Phillips, 2000). It is therefore not surprising that the University of Michigan and Columbia University have already created and distributed electronic versions of textbooks for some of their major university projects (Epstein, 1999). However, if the eBook is to be considered as a viable alternative to the traditional book, then it is important to explore the usability of the device.
Selvidge, Paula, Angie Fryman and Shannon Riley. Usability News (2001). Articles>Usability>Publishing
#18343
Simplify Your Life With Templates
Adobe® PageMaker® 7.0 includes more than 300 templates. Just open the Templates palette, select a category, choose a template, replace the placeholders with your content, and you’re done. You’ll get professional-looking results every time without fussing over special layouts or worrying about choosing appropriate fonts.
Adobe (2003). Design>Publishing>Document Design>Adobe PageMaker
#25059
Small Scale, Big Impact: Creating an Employee Newsletter
Every few weeks we receive a flyer about a 'seminar' or a 'workshop' on newsletters -- now to write them, how to design them, how to produce them, how to improve them. Although we haven’t actually attended any of these seminars, they travel to many major cities, and the list of topics covered and the testimonials printed in the flyers are impressive. This phenomenon of the successful traveling newsletter seminar suggests that A) lots of people (hence organizations) are interested in creating or improving newsletters, and B) there’s lots to be learned about newsletters.
Anderson, Pamela A., Sally Nereson, and Dorothy J. Wiemann. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Document Design>Publishing>Newsletters
#24446
Prospective authors, especially those writing books on technical communications, need an honest view of the publishing process. This panel dispels romantic myths about what is involved in writing and publishing a book so that potential authors hae a greater chance of getting successfully and profitably published.
Barnum, Carol M., JoAnn T. Hackos, William K. Horton III and Terri Hudson. STC Proceedings (1995). Articles>Publishing
#18639
This document will lay out the heated rights controversy concerning the use of synthetic speech -- Text-To-Speech (TTS) as it relates to the use of eBook publications by persons with disabilities.
Kerscher, George and Jim Fruchterman. OeB (2002). Articles>Publishing>Online>eBooks
#18637
Specifications for the Digital Talking Book
This standard defines the format and content of the electronic file set that comprises a digital talking book (DTB) and establishes a limited set of requirements for DTB playback devices. It uses established and new specifications to delineate the structure of DTBs whose content can range from XML text only, to text with corresponding spoken audio, to audio with little or no text. DTBs are designed to make print material accessible and navigable for blind or otherwise print-disabled persons.
National Information Standards Organization (2002). Resources>Publishing>Online
#22593
Acrobat's annotation tools are valuable for marking-up and commenting on design layouts and digital comps no matter where your client is located. Acrobat 6.0 goes a step further by integrating e-mail comment tracking for more efficient review cycles. Learn how to tap into these powerful features.
Knowlton, Gray. Creative Pro (2003). Design>Publishing>Prepress>Workflow
#19468
Implementing structured authoring with XML allows organizations to create better content. The addition of hierarchy and metadata to content improves reuse and content management. These benefits, however, must be weighed against the time and money required to implement a structured authoring approach. The business case is compelling for larger writing organizations; they will be the first to adopt structured authoring. Over time, improvements in available tools will reduce the cost of implementing structured authoring and make it affordable for smaller organizations.
O'Keefe, Sarah S. Scriptorium (2002). Design>Publishing>Information Design>XML
