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Professional Composition: Combining Professional Writing and Critical Pedagogy
Toward a less artificial approach to professional writing pedagogy.
Toscano, Aaron A. University of Louisville (2003). Resources>Bibliographies>Writing>Education
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Continued learning and professional training are essential for continual growth in the evolving field of usability. To address this need, the BoK will provide a listing of courses that are relevant to both students and professionals looking to enhance their knowledge of this growing field.
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An online resource for publication and discussion of ethical cases, appropriate for integrating ethics issues into the classroom.
Professional Ethics (2003). Resources>Education>Ethics>Blogs
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Professional Organizations in Collaboration
Links to a number of organizations that study groupware and collaboration.
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If you're an aspiring technical communicator or currently working in the field, you may find the following professional associations helpful.
Technical Communicators Resource Site (2004). Resources>Directories>Professionalism
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A collection of professionals in information architecture, grouped by country and alphabetized by surname.
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A template for providing historical information, available industry research, initial scope, a rough schedule, and implementation plans for the proposed project. It should outline business objectives of the project. It is to be completed by the project requestor – usually a business stakeholder.
Malone, Erin. AIfIA (2003). Resources>Web Design>Project Management>Workflow
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A sample project kickoff form, useful to clarify specific issues to particular jobs that might not otherwise become apparent until late in the job itself.
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Project Management Professional Certification Handbook 
A guide to help people prepare for the project management certification exam administered by PMI.
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A template to be completed by the experience design team lead in preparation of or as an attached document to Product Requirements documents. Information should be filled in to give an overview to project team who may be new to the project.
Malone, Erin. AIfIA (2003). Resources>Project Management>Workflow
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Writing a proposal for a sponsored activity such as a research project or a curriculum development program is a problem of persuasion. It is well to assume that your reader is a busy, impatient, skeptical person who has no reason to give your proposal special consideration and who is faced with many more requests than he can grant, or even read thoroughly.
Thackrey, Don. University of Michigan. Resources>Grants>Proposals
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A Proposal Writing Short Course
The process of nonprofit proposal writing is grounded in the conviction that a partnership should develop between the nonprofit and the donor. When you spend a great deal of your time seeking money, it is hard to remember that it can also be difficult to give money away. In fact, the dollars contributed by a foundation or corporation have no value until they are attached to solid programs in the nonprofit sector.
Foundation Center (2001). Resources>Grants>Proposals>Writing
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Publication Art: Technical Illustration
Put the art in the chart with these tips and tutorials for creating technical illustrations for publications such as books and magazines.
Howard Bear, Jacci. About.com. Resources>Directories>Technical Illustration
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A weblog about the Web, computer vision and life.
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QuarkXPress Tutorials and Training
Look for tips, tutorials product support, downloads, templates,and publications for QuarkXPress. Find formal and informal training classes and seminars both online and offline for this popular desktop publishing program.
Howard Bear, Jacci. About.com. Resources>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
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R020 Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información 
R020 es un sitio independiente sin fines de lucro dedicado a la investigación y difusión en el campo de la bibliotecología y las ciencias de la información creado por profesionales de distintas especialidades. R020 está orientado al espectro profesional que en la actualidad se dedica al desarrollo de servicios documentales y de información. Es un espacio multidisciplinar y abierto al intercambio con especialistas de todas las disciplinas relativas al campo de la información. R020 es el resultado del trabajo en común de profesionales de distintas áreas y diferentes puntos del país interesados en la actualización y la innovación.
R020. (Spanish) Resources>Bibliographies>Information Design>Blogs
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In rapid prototyping interactive prototypes are developed which can be quickly replaced or changed in line with design feedback. This feedback may be derived from colleagues or users as they work with the prototype to accomplish set tasks. This method is concerned with developing different proposed concepts through software or hardware prototypes, and evaluating them. In general the process is termed ‘rapid’ prototyping. The development of a simulation or prototype of the future system can be very helpful, allowing users to visualise the system and provide feedback on it. Thus it can be used to clarify user requirements options. Later on in the lifecycle, it can also be used to specify details of the user interface to be included in the future system.
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The creation of low-cost representations of the user interface to a system as a method of brainstorming, creating, testing and communicating ideas about the system being developed.
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A collection of online resources affiliated with Bedford/St. Martin's writing and rhetoric textbooks.
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Uses 1950s-era arithmetical formulas to assess the readability of written text in Microsoft Word documents or online websites.
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Reading List: Popular Communication Management Books
This list is composed of recently published books in the areas of management, organizational development and marketing that pertain to communication management. The list is organized in four parts: * Information, Communication Technology and Organizations * Organizational Culture, Change and Communications * Electronic Economy/E-Commerce * Marketing and E-Commerce
Hallahan, Kirk. Colorado State University (2000). Resources>Bibliographies>Management
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Reading on the Web about International Issues
A bibliography of online articles about international issues.
Hoft, Nancy L. Nancy Hoft Consulting (2003). Resources>Bibliographies>Online>International
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Recipe for a Successful Website
Listen up, this one's a no-brainer. Building a successful website is as simple as an Easy-Bake Oven™. Although it's a lot of hard work, it isn't very difficult to understand. The directions are clear. Here's the list of ingredients-and there are only six: Content, Information Design, Performance, Compatibility, Visual Design, and Interaction Design. Each of these ingredients is important and not one can be left out. Would you leave out sugar in a cake recipe? Would you bake bread without yeast? Of course not, but that's what 95% of the websites on the Internet are doing-especially the commercial sites where it is even more important. Most sites serve up pages like half-baked cookies without everything necessary to make them delicious. They usually get the sugar in there but they often forget even more essential elements like flour and water, making their servings hard to swallow and even more difficult to stomach. A successful website might be able to get by with only five of these ingredients-if they are ex
Shedroff, Nathan. nathan.com (1994). Resources>Web Design>Interaction Design
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Recommended Texts for Research Methods Classes
A list of recommended texts for use in a research methods class, accompanied by brief reviews. The list was generated in a discussion on attw-l in February 2000.
Winsor, Dorothy A. Iowa State University. Resources>Bibliographies>Methods
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A collection of links to hundreds of technical writing-related websites.
GaryConroy.com. Resources>Directories>Writing>Technical Writing
