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This workshop is intended to help graduate students and junior faculty successfully prepare a manuscript for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication based on a conference presentation.
Technical Communication faculty at Mercer University's School of Engineering have created a new professional communication course for engineering freshmen designed to give them experience in library research, introduce them to major challenges for 21st_ century engineers, and give them practice in designing communication products in genres that they will use in their coursework and as engineers in...
This workshop focuses on teaching usability at the undergraduate and master's level, and emphasizes the potential of such courses to bring the classroom and workplace together, aid student learning, and allow businesses to influence the training of the next generation of professional communicators.
Research Problem: Investigate the match between content published by the Transactions and content sought by its readers. Research Questions: What content does the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication publish? How does that compare to the content published by other journals in the field? And what content do readers of the Transactions want to read? Literature Review: Researchers in most...
This highly interactive workshop reviews the theory and practice of focus group methods, and shows how technical communicators can use focus groups to understand the issues and needs of audiences, users, and customers. The workshop covers focus group theory, design considerations, capturing and analyzing data, and validating data through member checking.
When disaster strikes, helping people survive in the short term is vital but not sufficient. Those touched by a disaster need jobs to pick up their lives again, but jobs do not survive if business hasn't anticipated the possibility of disruption. The companies that survive catastrophic events with minimal negative effect are the ones that have disaster plans to preserve critical data off site and...
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