Impressive things are occurring in the visual design classrooms at Kennesaw State University in Georgia (USA). The winning illustrations for the May 2017 issue of Technical Communication are the creations of KSU students. Here are two promising artists
STC gives out two awards for the exemplary work published in Intercom: the best article of the year and the best guest-edited issue of the year. This year’s judging team for the awards consisted of Saul Carliner (Chair), Michelle Despres, Linda Oestreich, Kirk St.Amant, Marta Rauch, and Kelly Schrank.
The Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research was established by STC in 2006 to celebrate and honor Professor Ken Rainey’s passion for research that results in improvements to technical communication, especially to practice. The goal of the award is to encourage quality and excellence in technical communication research by honoring those whose research studies have made an outstanding contribution to the field. The committee for this year’s award is Ann Blakeslee, PhD; Charles Kostelnick, PhD; Michael Albers, PhD; and Hope J. Lafferty, AM, ELS
The illustration on the cover of the February 2017 issue of Technical Communication is the creation of Aram Johnson-Wilson, a student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia who is studying Interactive Design.
In between holiday preparations, our competition teams are hard at work preparing for the annual International Summit Awards Competition (ISA).
The student honorary societies Sigma Tau Chi (STX) and Alpha Sigma (AS) recognize student members of the Society who have distinguished themselves as students and have demonstrated promise of future contributions to the Society and the profession.
There’s still time to get your entry in for the STC local competitions!
The Instructional Design & Learning (IDL) special interest group of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) invites graduate- and undergraduate-level students to become published before graduating. Here are the basics of the program
Ken Rainey, a professor at Southern Polytechnic State University and an STC Fellow, produced major research studies that provide ongoing benefit to the field of technical communication. Ken passed away in the fall of 2006, but during his years of service to STC, he designed and published many studies that helped connect what is taught in the classroom with what technical communicators do in the workplace.
Last week, STC’s membership department gave away a $30 Amazon gift card to those who joined or renewed for 2017. Dozens of memberships were activated in response to the contest, and we’d like to congratulate the winners of the drawing!