A slate of six candidates for election to the ProComm Board of Governors for 2021–2023 has been announced.
Pam Estes Brewer, Mercer UniversityClaas Digmayer, RWTH Aachen University in GermanyZhijun Gao, Peking UniversitySean Moseley, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyLydia Wilkinson, University of TorontoDavid L. Young Jr., Georgia Institute …
March 2022
Guest editors: Godwin Y. Agboka (University of Houston-Downtown) and Isidore Dorpenyo (George Mason University)
Recent incidents of police brutality and state-sanctioned murder of Black people have amplified the insidious cancer of systemic racism and inequality, injustice, White supremacy, privilege, oppression, bias, and discrimination against minority groups …
ProComm is currently looking for nominations for our 2021 awards, specifically:
The Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering CommunicationThe Emily K. Schlesinger Award for Outstanding Service to the Professional Communication SocietyThe Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication Education
Additional details about these …
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 …
Science (and engineering) is often considered a highly exclusive domain, with participation requiring significant education and practical experience. One of the ways that science and engineering maintains its exclusivity is through its highly specialized language and rhetorical conventions. For example, the scientific paper has traditionally had a gatekeeping …
In her paper “‘Here We Show’: Teaching Engineering Students to Reason with an Audience,” to be delivered at ProComm 2020, Dr. Suzanne Lane argues that learning to use first-person discourse alongside with active voice is an important step in becoming an engineer.
Although the use of …
How aware are you of your cognitive biases and how they can impact your reception and delivery of communication? In a paper to be delivered at ProComm2020, Quan Zhou categorizes and outlines over twenty cognitive biases that can play into the communication act.
The Cognitive Bias …
Dear Colleagues,
In consideration for the safety of our participants, continued challenges to global travel, large gatherings, and reduced academic funding, IEEE ProComm 2020 has switched to a completely online format. While we are disappointed not to be meeting you at Kennesaw, we hope the event …
The March and June issues of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication published reviews of Engineering Justice (Leydens & Lucena, 2018) and Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn (Walton, Moore, & Jones, 2019). The past few weeks have brought the issue of social justice …
The new issue is now available online.
Research Articles:
Go or No Go: Learning to Persuade in an Early-Stage Student Entrepreneurship Program, by C. Spinuzzi, D. Altounian, and G. P. Pogue
Early-stage accelerator programs teach new entrepreneurs how to identify and exploit venture opportunities. In doing so, they implicitly …
