Announcements

Nominations for the 2013 STC Ken Rainey Excellence in Research Award

Please help us continue to honor the distinguished research contributions of Dr. Ken Rainey by nominating yourself or a colleague for the prestigious 2013 STC Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research. The Ken Rainey award celebrates Ken Rainey’s passion for research that results in significant improvements to technical communication, especially to practice. It rewards a lifetime of quality research in the field, a single high-quality empirical study, or a set of related high-quality studies.

RosEvaluation Conference 2013 – Call for Proposals

Educators are searching for tools that can help them assess and evaluate their students’ achievement of defined learning outcomes in fields as diverse as engineering, business, health professions, math, science and technology (to name a few). These assessments and evaluations are part of a national …

The first book in the PCS-sponsored series is on the shelves!

Entitled Information Overload: An International Challenge for Professional Engineers and Technical Communicators with authors/editors Judith Strother, Jan Ulijn, Zohra Fazal, we are excited to showcase this book that addresses the ever-increasing problem of information overload from both the corporate and academic perspectives. Especially for …

Double Issue of the Transactions—On Its Way to a Mailbox Near You

Check your mailboxes: the new issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication should arrive soon.
If it looks like a double issue, that’s because it is. As was mentioned in correspondence with you earlier in the year and in earlier posts to this website, although …

The IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2012

The IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2012 will be held in Seattle, Washington State, USA from Oct 21 – 24, 2012. Details: http://www.ieeeghtc.org/. Other than the official website, we have an active facebook group, linkedIn group and a less active twitter. Further to that we …