Resources

ProComm Fireside Chat: Strategies for Industry Success in the New Normal

Thursday December 10th, 3:00pm EST. 

Strategies for Industry Success in the New Normal is an opportunity for you to reflect on challenges, discuss new strategies, and learn from the experiences of fellow industry members and academic professional communication specialists as we adapt to online, hybrid or physically …

A Roundup of Zoom Tips (and a few unconventional takes on them!)

At the start of the pandemic, nobody was an expert at videoconferencing. Well, that’s not quite right … There have been a steady stream of Zoom Tips articles from “experts” in the field, containing everything from “get good at lighting” to “what to wear” on …

Announcing the ProComm Fireside Chat series

Our society is excited to launch a discussion series to help you stay connected with like-minded professionals as we all navigate significant changes to our professional lives. The “ProComm Fireside Chat” series will be an informal opportunity to learn from other ProComm members as we …

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 …

Flatten the Curve: Why certain messages catch on

When communicating about risk, the hope is to craft appropriate messaging to motivate appropriate action and understanding by the public. This is often challenging, particularly when there is so much scientific uncertainty involved in the risk. Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, many messages have been developed …