Posts By: Alan Chong

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Special Issue on Enacting Social Justice in Technical and Professional Communication

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 …

Award Nominations 2021

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 …

Call for Board of Governors (BoG) Nominations 2020

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 …

Plain Language in the Sciences

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 …

Finding your Voice and Verbs in Engineering

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 …

Cognitive Biases in Technical Communication

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 …

ProComm 2020 is going online!

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 June 2020 of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is Now Available

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 …

Call for Nominations for IEEE Medals and Recognitions

IEEE is currently accepting nominations for the IEEE Medals and Recognitions, with a nomination deadline of 1 June 2020. 

All of the information pertaining to the awards, online submissions, and guidelines can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/content/ieee-org/en/about/awards/index.html/