#28549
Why Should STC Publish a Journal? 
The Society for Technical Communication has good reason to be proud of its two major publications, Intercom and this journal. Both have garnered significant awards from the annual APEX competitions, and both serve important purposes. But why do we publish both a journal and a magazine? How did they develop? Why should the STC publish a journal at all?
Hayhoe, George F. Technical Communication Online (2007). Articles>TC>Publishing
#26700
Explores the intersection between peer-reviewed print journals and online publications, and then examines two hybrid publications, one outside the discipline of professional communication and one inside, to determine whether a middle ground is attainable, and whether it can provide the same enculturating experience without hampering the development of professional ethos.
Search, Matthew. Orange Journal, The (2005). Articles>Publishing>Online
#25471
Wide Open: Open Source Methods and their Future Potential
The principles of 'open source' - collaborative forms of creating knowledge pioneered in software development - have huge untapped potential to transform business, government and everyday life.
Mulgan, Geoff, Omar Salem and Tom Steinberg. Demos (2005). Books>Publishing>Open Source
#31186
Admit it: You sometimes consult Wikipedia. Scott McLemee wonders if you should write for it, too.
McLemee, Scott. Inside Higher Ed (2006). Articles>Publishing>Online>Wikis
#29141
Women and Feminism in Technical Communication--An Update 
The purposes of this study are to determine the current status of scholarship published in five major technical communication journals about women and feminism and to identify changes in focus that may have occurred over the last five years. We begin with a discussion of the frequency of publication for articles whose titles have keywords relating to women and feminism. After identifying 21 articles, we consider the thematic patterns in the narrowed corpus. We conclude that scholarly publication about women and feminism in technical communication has moved from a moderate or radical concern for inclusion to a postmodern concern for critique of visual, verbal, and mechanical "technologies," which previously were not considered political.
Thompson, Isabelle and Elizabeth Overman Smith. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (2006). Articles>Research>Publishing>Gender
#24505
This qualitative content analysis identifies 40 articles about women and feminism published in five technical communication journals in a period of nine years, beginning with the publication of Mary Lay's award-winning "Interpersonal Conflict in Collaborative Writing" in 1989. Along with numeric trends about the frequency of articles about women and feminism in technical communication journals, this study also identifies major themes, all of which concern inclusion: through eliminating sexist language, providing equal opportunity in the workplace, valuing gender differences, recovering women's historical contributions to technical communication, and critiquing previously uncontested terms and concepts. The study concludes that although research about women and feminism has been accepted as part of the scholarly purview of technical communication, the ways in which this research has influenced workplace or classroom practice are unclear.
Thompson, Isabelle. Journal of Business and Technical Communication (1999). Articles>Publishing>Technical Writing>Gender
#13676
Technical communicators and photographers achieve successful communications results through open, honest working relationships. To establish and maintain a good working relationship, each party must openly communicate with each other, understand the project requirements, focus on the project objectives, and work together as a team before, during, and after the shoot. Benefits to both the technical communicator and photographer include customer satisfaction, mutual referrals and partnership opportunities, and professional achievement.
Keefer, Christine A. and Jay A. Keefer. STC Proceedings (1999). Presentations>Publishing>Photography
#19934
Publishing articles on the World Wide Web in established webzines edited for love or money by people who take their tasks seriously offers a possible remedy to the problem of inauthenticityor pseudotransactionality in student writing.
Sands, Peter. Academic.Writing (2003). Articles>Education>Publishing>Online
#22180
Review: Writer's Market FAQs: Fast Answers about Getting Published and the Business of Writing
Rubie uses a question-and-answer format for his book, which makes the book difficult to sit and read cover to cover but works well when one uses it for reference.
Kadilak, Denise. Technical Communication Online (2004). Articles>Reviews>Publishing>Writing
#24259
Writing a Collaborative Book in Cyberspace 
New software is released. The same day, a 1,000 page book is released that 'unleashes' the hidden secrets of the software. How did the book get there so quickly? This paper takes an insider’s look at a case history — the writing and publishing of the Lotus Notes Unleashed series of books — to show how the Internet is being used to provide more timely and accurate information on technical subjects. The described case includes assembling the writing team, writing the book, the editing process, and publication of the book, all done using the Internet and computers as a primary medium.
Child, Don. STC Proceedings (1998). Articles>Publishing>Collaboration>Online
#24122
A place for writers to post questions, to find information, or to encourage others in their writing struggles.
#13158
Writing and Publishing a Book in the Japanese Marketplace
Publishing one’s own book by oneself is one of the concrete output of technical communication just like writing a paper and a manual for a company or its client. Right subject, good organization, and easiness of reading are the minimum requirements. The book must be more market-oriented because it will be sold at bookstores and read by consumers as well as specialists. However, having a book published in the Japanese marketplace isn’t easy for two reasons. One is the economic depression. The other is that a publishing company is looking for only a book, which is likely to be sold in numbers. They say, 'Does it sell or not; that’s the question.' internationalization is a long-range issue, the book, when published, could have a relatively long lifetime. The plot of the book were 1) make task analysis of SEs work, 2) check the effect of internationalization upon SEs tasks, and finally 3) explain guidelines, know-how, and English expressions needed by SEs in the international situations. HOW TO WRITE To publish
Nakajima, Yasushi. STC Proceedings (2000). Presentations>Publishing>Regional>Japan
#19930
Writing and Publishing in the Boundaries: Academic Writing In/Through the Virtual Age
Increasingly, online publications are vying for prominence and acceptance in the academy. Questions about their validity and quality are raised alongside debates about the effects that these publications will have on academic scholarship. Despite all the hype around e-journals, few have carefully analyzed what differences actually exist between online journals and print journals. In this article, I undertake a comparative analysis of two key journals in the specialty field of computers and composition—Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing, primarily a print journal, and Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, an e-journal.
Peterson, Patricia Webb. TWI (2003). Articles>Publishing>Online
#30023
Make complex technical information understandable. Make it easy for the reader to read and extract information. Achieve clarity, conciseness, and coherence.
Hanson, Kenneth M. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Presentations>Writing>Publishing
#30332
Writing for Trade and User Magazines
If you're a technical writer, writing an article and getting it published in a trade or user magazine is a good way to expand your capabilities, enhance your resume, promote yourself, and have fun. And if you want to establish yourself as an expert on something, there's no better way.
Boston Broadside (1992). Articles>Writing>Publishing
#22746
After spending a week of toil and labor in the Semantic Web mines, I've returned to the surface, to the sweetness and light of the XML developer community. And what do I find but a crisis about the XML part of the technical book publishing industry, as well as a monster thread about character entity names.
Clark, Kendall Grant. XML.com (2003). Articles>Publishing>Information Design>XML
#26181
Your Clients are Going Global: Can You Keep Up?
As more companies conduct business globally, their printing needs often involve more foreign language translation and typesetting. Being able to meet such growing needs may give your business a major competitive advantage. So, have you considered adding translation and typesetting to your printing offerings? The one-stop convenience may be a major draw for businesses that have frequent dealings overseas. They will most likely choose a printer that can handle everything rather than dividing the work up for several printers to handle. So what do you need to do to get started?
WTB Language Group (2004). Careers>Consulting>Publishing>International
#19672
As electronic documents gain ascendancy, the authenticity of the author and the integrity of e-mail documents, which most of us usually take for granted, may become major stumbling blocks for ecommerce, e-learning, online training, and technical communication in the future. How can we be certain of the authenticity of electronic documents? While this problem exists equally for paper-based documents, given sophisticated scanners, software, and color printers, electronic documents are especially prone to tampering, mismanagement, and outright fraud.
Archee, Raymond K. Intercom (2003). Articles>Publishing>Online>Security
#32173
The 4J's Group Blog featuring, thoughts and observations on the many facets of corporate publishing.
Content Pool, The (2008). Resources>Publishing>Online>Content Management
#32174
Why Technical Publishing Shouldn't Be Art
The work may start with the author, but to get it from the author to the end reader means it also has to go through an editor, copy editor, book designer, typesetter, printer, sales and marketing team, distributor, book buyer, and, eventually, a retail store.
Porter, Alan J. TechCom Manager (2008). Articles>TC>Publishing>Project Management
#32189
Eliminating the 'End Game' from Electronic Deliverables
Once you start looking at your publishing process separately from your content and style considerations, you will have identified how your “End Game” impacts your production process. Then, you can take the necessary steps to eliminate it.
Porter, Alan J. TechCom Manager (2007). Articles>Publishing>Online>Workflow
#32245
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing the barriers to serious research.
Suber, Peter. Open Access News. Resources>Publishing>Open Source>Blogs
#32296
Amusing Titles in Scientific Journals and Article Citation
The present study examines whether the use of humor in scientific article titles is associated with the number of citations an article receives. Four judges rated the degree of amusement and pleasantness of titles of articles published over 10 years (from 1985 to 1994) in two of the most prestigious journals in psychology, Psychological Bulletinand Psychological Review. We then examined the association between the levels of amusement and pleasantness and the article’s monthly citation average. The results show that, while the pleasantness rating was weakly associated with the number of citations, articles with highly amusing titles (2 standard deviations above average) received fewer citations. The negative association between amusing titles and subsequent citations cannot be attributed to differences in the title length and pleasantness, number of authors, year of publication, and article type (regular article vs comment). These findings are discussed in the context of the importance of titles for signalling an article’s content.
Sagi, Itay and Eldad Yechiam. Journal of Information Science (2008). Articles>Publishing>Research>Scientific Communication
#32300
Electronic Scholarly Publishing and Open Access
A review of recent developments in electronic publishing, with a focus on Open Access (OA) is provided. It describes the two main types of OA, i.e. the `gold' OA journal route and the `green' repository route, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of the two, and the reactions of the publishing industry to these developments. Quality, cost and copyright issues are explored, as well as some of the business models of OA. It is noted that whilst so far there is no evidence that a shift to OA will lead to libraries cancelling subscriptions to toll-access journals, this may happen in the future, and that despite the apparently compelling reasons for authors to move to OA, so far few have shown themselves willing to do so. Conclusions about the future of scholarly publications are drawn.
Oppenheim, Charles. Journal of Information Science (2008). Articles>Publishing>Research>Open Source
#32301
The Last 50 Years of Knowledge Organization: A Journey Through My Personal Archives
At the time when the Institute of Information Scientists was launched, well established principles of classification, especially faceted classification, provided an excellent springboard for developments in knowledge organization thereafter. The principles of thesaurus construction and use were worked out during the first two decades of the Institute's existence. Up until the end of the 1980s, most practical systems to exploit any of these vocabularies were held on cards, some of them highly ingenious. The subsequent arrival of the desktop computer, soon followed by the growth of networks providing access to an almost unimaginable quantity and variety of resources, has stimulated evolution of the knowledge organization schemes to exploit the technology available. Anecdotes of events and practical applications of controlled vocabularies illustrate this account of developments over the period.
Dextre Clarke, Stella G. Journal of Information Science (2008). Articles>Publishing>Research>History
