All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed by three independent referees from the international program boards. Papers in the theoretical category should deal with models, concepts, and structures; papers in the generic category should present research results of broad applicability; and papers in the applied category should show how the demands of particular application areas shape the way generic research is translated into practical innovation.
Affiliated Conferences, jointly held under one management and one registration, include I don't know if the seven 4rd conferences are supposed to be 3rd conferences or 4th conferences :. Think of this site as a white board with a brain.
The Annual Conference is a virtual event over three weeks: May , May , and June , Location: In-Person and an Online Event p. Paul Jarvis. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Paul Jarvis left a successful career as an online designer and consultant for major corporations for a more fulfilling solo entrepreneur role. The main point in Company of One challenges traditional advice that small businesses must grow in complexity to compete. Business owners should base their growth strategy on actual profits and not projections.
While some information may not be new to experienced business owners, Jarvis provides practical advice and insights for starting and managing a successful small business.
Jarvis stresses that small businesses have an advantage over their larger competitors as they likely have a greater understanding of customer needs.
Business owners can define their company, distinguish themselves from their competition, and build their reputation as an authority on a topic by teaching and freely sharing their ideas and nonproprietary information.
While Jarvis admits that his proposal may sound controversial, he clarifies it by making a distinction between sharing general ideas and their execution. He uses an example from his own life. However, the execution of his idea his book is copyrighted. People are more willing to listen to someone they know and trust.
Ann Marie is the owner of A. Queeney, LLC. Larry English has a great story to tell. His story, in part, is about how he is a co-founder and now president of Centric Consulting, a company with a focus on building an office optional approach and a mission of creating a culture of happiness for their employees and clients.
Centric is now a 1,plus person company with offices in 12 U. Feeling burned-out at the age of 25, he quit his office job and backpacked around the world with his newlywed wife. He returned home and co-founded—with like-minded friends—the office optional company of Centric. He now lives in Columbus, Ohio. In Office Optional: How to Build a Connected Culture with Virtual Teams, English explains how companies can struggle with creating an office optional environment with an effective culture.
English creates a fun, quick, useful, and entertaining read in Office Optional as he shares stories about managing remote teams. His goal is to explain how to build a sense of belonging and a culture of trust. He notes that prioritizing people and culture is important as he lets employees set a schedule that works for them.
English further states that this approach can motivate people to be even more productive than working in a traditional office.
She holds an MS in technical communication management from Mercer University. Bart Leahy. Heroic Technical Writing. If you are an aspiring writer aiming to get an insight into the life of a technical writer in the US working in the space industry, you will get the most out of the book. By contrast, I have been working for more than 20 years as a technical writer and translator in the software industry in Europe and found some topics in the book quite exotic.
For example, I was not even aware of some of the document types i. Nevertheless, even with a completely different background and no matter where you find yourself in your technical writing journey, Heroic Technical Writing: Making a Difference in the Workplace and Your Life will provide valuable, helpful, and at the same time entertaining information and stories.
Keeping a light, personal tone, Leahy gives advice and shares honest thoughts on a wide range of topics related to technical writing. Remarkably, Leahy also openly talks about mistakes he has made during his career so that the reader does not have to make them. What I liked most about the book is that it shows how passionate Leahy is about technical writing—and I strongly believe myself that if you are not passionate about what you do, you will not do it well.
She works as a Documentation Specialist at the Austrian-based headquarters of ISIS Papyrus Europe AG, an international company offering solutions for inbound and outbound business communication and process management. Matthew MacDonald. WordPress is a free software originally intended for writing blogs that has evolved to include websites and even e-commerce. Matthew MacDonald starts at the beginning—installing the software—then takes the reader through increasingly complex changes—including using add-on mini-programs called plug-ins—and ends with adding a shopping cart.
On the way, he also covers webmaster topics such as site statistics and search engine optimization. The book does not assume any previous web coding experience, explaining basic terms and concepts. Anybody with that kind of background will know HTML as the basic markup language for displaying content on the web. Beyond the technical details of various features, MacDonald also discusses issues to consider when, for example, deciding on categories to which posts or pages can be assigned.
The first few chapters expound on why using WordPress is better than coding a website from scratch. While maintenance is easier on the blogging platform, implementing a highly customized design may be simpler using the web markup language. While reading the book, I marked several passages for implementation on my writing site. As with many books these days, WordPress: The Missing Manual could benefit from more rigorous copy editing, for example, on p. If you want to create your own blog or website, this guide will take you through the process and offer helpful tips along the way.
If you want to update an existing site, the detailed table of contents will help you pick just the sections you need. Barbara Jungwirth writes about medical topics www. She has written for print and online media since her high school days and majored in media studies. You can find her on Twitter at bjungwirthNY.
Asya Pereltsvaig. Cambridge University Press. Chapters are organized by geography and language family and move from interesting anecdotes about language to formal analysis of phonology, morphology, syntax, and grammar. Dialects close together on the continuum are mutually intelligible, like American and British English, and constitute a language.
Dialects far apart, like Cantonese and Mandarin, are mutually unintelligible, and therefore different languages, despite sharing a common ideographic writing system pp. By comparing cognates, sound correspondences, and grammar, linguists can reconstruct a common ancestral language, such as Indo-European, for languages as different as English, Hindi, and Czech. Cantonese and Mandarin, despite their mutual unintelligibility, belong to the Sino-Tibetan family, yet are unrelated to another contiguous family, Austro-Asiatic, or to Korean and Japanese, two isolates that comprise their own unique language families.
The question then arises: Is there an underlying unity between language families and isolates that posits an innate linguistic ability in humans? Greenberg showed that languages requiring the verb-object VO order are almost always prepositional, whereas object-verb OV languages are almost always postpositional, regardless of language family: Spanish Indo-European and Arabic Semitic use VO, Japanese isolate , and Chechen Northeast Caucasian , OV. A related rule is the Headedness Parameter.
This parameter is binary: The Head may precede or follow the Complement but must do one or the other. If the Head comes first, the sequence is OV. If the Head comes last, the sequence is VO. Using such rules and the sound inventory available to humans, linguists can construct languages like Klingon or Dothraki never heard before and without native speakers, yet commensurate with all other natural languages.
Donald R. He previously spent twenty-three years in high technology as a technical writer, engineer, manager, and director in semiconductors, instrumentation, and server development. Sarah Casey and Gerry Davies. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. In an age where technology is touted as the most powerful investigative tool available to researchers, Sarah Casey and Gerry Davies argue for the age-old practice of drawing as an equally powerful investigative tool.
Their book, one part of the Drawing In series, discusses drawing as an investigative and communication medium in areas of study outside the visual arts. Some of these areas include medical science, theoretical math, environment, history, culture, and conflict.
Each chapter covers a unique field of study and explores different ways drawing has been used by people from varying professional backgrounds and investigative motivations to expand their knowledge in that field. The authors choose an eclectic mix of accounts. For example, the story of a researcher studying the fluid dynamics of heart formation by capturing the movement of dye in water is juxtaposed next to the account of a woman trying to understand the nature of her degenerative disease by drawing the disfigurement of bones it causes.
To technical communicators that use and write about evolving technology, an argument for drawing might seem archaic. However, the authors present arguments for using drawing in any investigative work, which are applicable to the field of technical communication as well. For example, technical communicators need to understand a process before they can effectively write about it.
The stages preceding the development of a technical document are highly investigative and extrospective, just like the process of drawing. So, as the authors point out, even though digital photography offers a high degree of objectivity and accuracy of details about a subject, its speed of production can be a disadvantage to a researcher.
While drawing, the artist spends hours near his or her subject, noticing the most elusive of details and obtaining a deeper knowledge of the subject and its mechanics. This in-depth knowledge is the holy grail we seek as technical communicators to do our work. In Drawing Investigations: Graphic Relationships with Science, Culture and Environment, Casey and Davies include numerous examples of investigative artists coupled with interesting discussions about how these artists have selected drawing techniques and tools to meet their research needs.
However, I would have preferred to have had more pictures in the book to help in understanding the content better. I would suggest that readers keep a computer or cellphone handy while reading so that they can look up and enjoy more of the mentioned drawings. Otherwise, this enjoyable, thought-provoking book is a must-read for all, especially technical communicators who are looking for new avenues of learning.
Arsela Haque is an STC student member, is a science reporter, and is currently enrolled in the technical communication program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Russell T Warne. Psychologist Russell T. Warne believes that intelligence is one of the most important human traits. Intelligence research has been conducted for more than years, yet there is a big gap between what the public believes about human intelligence and the facts that research has uncovered.
He hopes this scholarly knowledge will trickle down from these readers to the public, including the media. The introduction to In the Know provides a content overview as well as a history of intelligence research.
Once readers have digested the introduction, they can choose chapters that interest them, each of which can stand alone, although some may refer to previous chapters. Warne confronts each of the 35 myths chapter by chapter, starting by citing experts who have been sources of false beliefs. They have repercussions in hiring practices, government policies, and school admissions, among other crucial elements of everyday life. Warne has written a readable book on a technical subject.
His point of view is backed up by citations of studies throughout In the Know as well as being further explained by figures and tables. His claim to be as non-technical as possible comes with the caveat that research involves statistics.
However, crash course notwithstanding, many readers may find themselves at a disadvantage because much of In the Know does rely on this knowledge. Linda M. Davis is an independent communications practitioner in the Los Angeles area.
She holds an MA in Communication Management and has specialized in strategic communication planning, publication management, writing, and editing for more than 25 years. Lee Hartley Carter.
Tutorials will be offered at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels covering the entire spectrum of the conference.
It is anticipated that a broad range of research and applied topics will be covered during the conference. All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed by three independent referees from the international program boards. Papers in the theoretical category should deal with models, concepts, and structures; papers in the generic category should present research results of broad applicability; and papers in the applied category should show how the demands of particular application areas shape the way generic research is translated into practical innovation.
Affiliated Conferences, jointly held under one management and one registration, include I don't know if the seven 4rd conferences are supposed to be 3rd conferences or 4th conferences :. Think of this site as a white board with a brain.
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