Professional communication often involves producing documentation for slightly different contexts, sometimes over the course of multiple years. Information about the same product, process, or event is often delivered to different audiences and to meet different purposes. Product specifications might need to be developed for an …
Melissa Clarkson
This brief tutorial introduces the foundational elements of visual communication. The emphasis is on techniques to graphically communicate (A) hierarchy, (B) grouping and (C) sequence— three concepts that are critical for designing effective figures, posters, and slides.
Here is an overview of the strategy:
Position, color, …
Living in a self-service society we are often confronted with different technologies when settling our daily affairs, such as online travel sites or public terminals like ATMs or ticket vending machines. While self-service technologies offer some advantages like 24/7 availability, there are serious disadvantages as well. …
Dr. Marsha Lovett talked about leveraging technology in the learning sciences in the opening keynote for IPCC 2014. We asked her what role learning sciences can play in improving pedagogy and student learning, especially in professional communication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1STpHaTdoo
Learn more about her and her work in cognitive …
Dr. Richard House, co-author of the Lufkin award winning paper on engineering ethos in environmental public policy deliberations, tell us about the case they studied, and what it tells us about how engineering argument and authority is often constructed. Find out about what helps to …
Dr. Bernadette Longo gave the closing keynote at IEEE PCS 2014 conference on Disciplinary Grounding and Interdisciplinary Understanding. We asked her a few questions about the challenges and opportunities this increasing interdiscipinarity presents for professional communication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptwurDrbX4w
Find out more about her and her important work on our relationships to our …
The header from the first IEEE Group on Engineering Writing and Speech Newsletter
Bell-bottom jeans, disco music, and a Dodge Dart–if you take a look at consumer culture, you would suspect that we are in the midst of a 70’s revival. In the case of PCS, …
Interpersonal Competencies and Technical Skills–Double Whammy!
There has been a lot of conversation and consternation around one important issue: how can we best prepare college students for the world of work? Responses to a survey conducted by Bentley University through their PreparedU Project suggest that a …
It’s a new year! Why not create communication resolutions for 2014?
We are 11 days into the new year, and a few days after the Polar Vortex, so it seems like a good time to think about communication resolutions for 2014. Communication resolutions, you ask? Aren’t …
In the Huffington Post on August 14, 2013, Adam Wexler provided several interesting insights regarding the ways in which LinkedIn is gaining social media prominence over Facebook. As he explains,
Forget your Facebook–Like your LinkedIn!
“LinkedIn possesses an inherent advantage over all of the other social networks: it …
