Posts By: Alan Chong

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream – 3 Year CLTA – Graduate Academic Communication

The Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC) within the University of Toronto’s School of Graduate Studies invites applications for a full-time three-year contractually limited term appointment (CLTA), with a possible two-year renewal, specializing in teaching academic writing/speaking to graduate students. The appointment will be at the rank …

Generation Z sets technological boundaries at work, research shows

A recent article from IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication was featured in the Arizona State University news.

Generation Z have been told throughout their high school and collegiate careers that their technology use would distract them in the workplace. However, when they got there, they discovered …

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream – CLTA – Graduate Communication in Engineering

The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE) and the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) invite applications for a three-year Contractually Limited Term Appointment (CLTA) in Graduate Communication in Engineering, specializing in the teaching of writing/speaking to graduate students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) …

Managing communication in large-scale projects

Moving from Student to Engineer: Part 2

By Robert Lyons, Technical and Management Consultant, and Nancy Barr, PhD

On top of their day jobs, engineers are often called on to work on the proposals to win business that keeps the company alive. Engineering students are probably familiar …

Call for Editorial Board Members – Technical Communication Youtube Channel

Dear colleagues,

We are seeking a five- to six-member editorial team to build and manage a YouTube channel for our field’s journal and book-series publications. Each team member would serve a term of up to two years. 

Participating TPC Publications

The publications participating in the YouTube project are …

How communication in industry differs from academia

Moving from Student to Engineer – Part 1

By Robert Lyons, Technical and Management Consultant, and Nancy Barr, PhD

The differences between academic and industrial communication projects seem to be in scope and scale of content, size and number of teams, duration of collaboration, and geographic dispersion. 

Industry …