Posts By: Alan Chong

Call for Board of Governors (BoG) Nominations 2023

The IEEE Professional Communication Society is managed by a Board of Governors comprising 12 volunteers who work to assure that our society serves its members and the field of technical and professional communication. If you are interested in a higher level of involvement in the society …

Call for Proposals for Special Issue for IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (September 2024)

Topic: Building Bridges Between Technical and Professional Communication and Translation Studies

Guest Editors: Belén López-Arroyo (University of Valladolid), Xiaobo Wang (Sam Houston State University), and Suguru Ishizaki (Carnegie Mellon University)

In the digitally-driven era of globalization, international professionals are increasingly faced with challenges of communicating with non-native …

The Risks and Benefits of Chat GPT 

By Kohava Mendelsohn

Recently, Chat GPT was released for use by the public by OpenAI. It is an extremely advanced AI chat bot that can answer queries for you. I think of it as a very advanced autocomplete system, taking in input as questions and outputting …

Effective Communication for Engineers

By Chat GPT

Effective communication is a key skill for any engineer to have, regardless of their level of experience or the specific industry they work in. Whether you are communicating with your colleagues, clients, or other stakeholders, the way you communicate can significantly impact …

Senior Instructor, UNBC (Northern British Columbia, Tenure Track)

The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) invites applications for a probationary/continuing appointment in the School of Engineering at the rank of Senior Instructor I, with proposed starting date of July 1, 2023. As an institution committed to the fostering of an inclusive and transformative learning …

The December 2022 issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is Now Available

Volume 65, Number 4, December 2022

Publication of the IEEE Professional Communication Society[Publication Information]

 Research Articles: 

A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of News Construction of the Flint Water Crisis, Y. Kong This study integrates corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to analyze 1858 news reports about the Flint water …