Apropos of this, here's a recent article in Technical Communication Online
advocating that academics do more to communicate their research to practitioner
communities:
https://www.stc.org/techcomm/2016/11/01/academics-are-from-mars-practitioners-are-from-venus-analyzing-content-alignment-within-technical-communication-forums/
Maybe they'll come to us instead of us going to them.
J
-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julia Williams
Sent: Sunday, 4 December 2016 8:28 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: STC journal "Technical Communication"
Ouch. It's a generous offer, but I personally have no room (my librarian
partner shouted "No!" when I asked). It'd be great if someone affiliated with
an institution could give it a home though.
J
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Burnfield
Sent: Saturday, 3 December 2016 8:55 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: STC journal "Technical Communication"
Hi Julia and everyone -
I have a nearly complete set of the STC publications Technical Communication
(quarterly journal) and Intercom (monthly magazine) from about 1996-2005, free
to a good home. Or even a suss, seedy home. I need to lighten my bookshelves.
If no-one is interested they'll go in the recycling, but that would be a shame.
There's some good stuff in here, at least from a historical angle.
If you are interested at all, let me know where you are and we can figure out
how to get them to you.
Stuart
ps. If this offer rings a bell, an ATWer agreed to take them last year but then
retired and decided he needed the shelf space for other things.
On 3/12/2016 12:42 PM, Julia Williams wrote:
There is one issue that you raised that I would like to comment on, although
it is not related to training. You mentioned that we could link to " all the
various magazines published by the TW world annually". I do think that it is
unfortunate that there are very few academic technical communications
publications that are easy for the non-academic to access. I am not a member
of the ASTC at present for some of the reasons Swapnil has raised (I do
belong to TCANZ), but I would consider joining the ASTC if they were able to
come to some arrangement with the STC to make their academic journal
"Technical Communication" available to members. I have thought about joining
the STC to get access to this, but I would be paying a lot for all the other
STC services (meetings, conferences etc) that I'm not able to take advantage
of here. You can subscribe to Technical Communication, but it costs hundreds
of dollars, presumably because it is priced for academic libraries.
