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About STC, Technical Communication, and Audience
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Special Issue of
Technical communication
Global Issues, Local Concerns
Technical communication, the journal of the Society for Technical Communication, is pleased to announce a special issue on Global Issues, Local Concerns to be published in May 1999. Guest editor isNancy L. Hoft.
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| CATEGORY and TITLE | AUTHORS |
| INTRODUCTION Global Issues, Local Concerns | Nancy L. Hoft |
| APPLIED THEORY Improving Translatability and Readability with Syntactic Cues | John R. Kohl |
| APPLIED RESEARCH Illustrations in User Manuals: Preference and Effectiveness with Japanese and American Readers |
Waka Fukuoka, Yukiko Kojima, and Jan H. Spyridakis |
| APPLIED RESEARCH Cultural and Rhetorical Adaptations for South American Audiences | Barry Thatcher |
| APPLIED RESEARCH Learning How to Use a Celluar Phone: Comparison Between German and Chinese Users | Pia Honold |
| CASE HISTORY Using Chopsticks and a Fork Together: Challenges and Strategies of Developing a Chinese/English Bilingual Web Site | Steve Chu |
| CASE HISTORY GIFAS Rationalized French: A Controlled Language for Aerospace Documentation in French |
Kathy Barthe, Claire Juaneda, Dominique Leseigneur, Jean-Claude Loquet, Claude Morin, Jean Escande, and Annick Vayrette |
| CASE HISTORY One Company's Efforts to Improve Translation and Localization |
Daphne Walmer |
| CASE HISTORY Going Online: Helping Technical Communicators Help Translators |
Patricia Flint, Melanie Lord Van Slyke, Doreen Stärke-Meyerring, and Aimee Thompson |
| CASE HISTORY Developing a Resource for Multinational Writing at Xerox Corporation |
Ann Adams, Gail Austin, and Melissa Taylor |
| EDITORIAL Communicating with the World | George F. Hayhoe |
| TECHNOLOGY REVIEW Good, Fast, Cheap: Translation Memory Systems Offer the Potential for All Three | Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray, editors |
About STC, Technical Communication, and Audience
The Society for Technical Communication is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication--it is the largest organization of its type in the world. Its 20,000 members include technical writers, editors, graphic designers, videographers, multimedia artists, and others whose work involves making technical information available to those who need it. The mission of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) is to improve the quality and effectiveness of technical communication for audiences worldwide. STC's highly acclaimed quarterly journal, Technical communication, publishes thought-provoking articles on subjects of interest to all technical communicators.The primary audience of Technical communication is informed practitioners; manuscripts reporting the results of research or proposing theories about topics concerning technical communication should include descriptions of or suggestions for practical application of the research or theory.
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Contact Information
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