http://tc.eserver.org/publisher/ASTC A listing of works published by ASTC in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/ASTC http://tc.eserver.org/22894.html http://tc.eserver.org/22894.html The Australian Society for Technical Communication (NSW) is a professional non-profit organisation dedicated to serving the needs of technical communicators. http://tc.eserver.org/14364.html http://tc.eserver.org/14364.html Professions change their ways of doing business when their paradigms -- their ways of seeing -- change. Technical communication went through one such paradigm change when the engineer-as-writer-and-reader became the technical-writer-as-writer and the user-as-reader in the early 1950's. In the 1990's, the technical communication paradigm is again changing, and this change will mean: the form of computer documantation will become more plastic; the concept of readability will become more of a design issue with the rise of document prototyping; audience analysis will become much less haphazard and dependent upon stereotypes; and the role of the technical writer will increase in visibility, responsibilities, and opportunities. John Carroll's new book on minimalist documentation, <I>The Nurnberg Funnel</I> and Edward Tufte's <I>Envisioning Information</I> are harbingers of this new paradigm change. http://tc.eserver.org/13519.html http://tc.eserver.org/13519.html The ASTC is a non-profit society, based in Victoria, for technical writers and other professionals involved in the communication of technical information. http://tc.eserver.org/10809.html http://tc.eserver.org/10809.html Editing anything that is intended to be read on a computer rather than (or in addition to) being read on a paper copy.