For an index to all the links available at this website, choose Links from the Book Resources menu.
Page 5. Careers in Technical Communication and Related Fields
Society for Technical Communication. The world's largest organization of technical communicators provides information about careers in technical writing, editing, and similar professions. Search the site for details, including current salaries.
Miami University (Ohio) Master's Degree Program in Technical and Scientific Communication. One of many colleges offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in technical and scientific communication, Miami University (Ohio) features information about the careers of its graduates.
Careers in Technical Communication. Fred Sampson, Technical Communicator/Information Developer Webmaster, prepared this site for those contemplating a career in technical communication. Although dated the site provides easily accessible information about a variety of topics related to breaking into technical writing.
Technical Communication Careers (EServer TC Library). EServer provides links to articles (often PDF formatted) about a variety of topics related to technical communications. The "Careers" list includes approximately 200 listings.
Page 7. Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Workplace Communication
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science The mission of this resource is "to provide engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work.
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions This center has collected hundreds of codes of ethics, many of them available online at this site. It also has resources related to ethical dimensions of emerging technologies, such as biomedical engineering and nanotechnology.
Legal Dimensions (EServer TC Library) EServer provides links to articles (often PDF formatted) about a variety of topics related to technical communications. The "Legal" list includes approximately 45 listings.
Ethics in Scientific and Technical Communications (by Jean Hollis Weber). This article, originally published in WISENET Journal, offers an overview of legal and ethical issues encountered in technical communications.
Applied Ethics Resources: Professional Ethics This page serves as a gateway to a diversity of Codes of Ethics accessible on the Internet.
Creating a Code of Ethics for Your Organization (Christopher MacDonald) MacDonald's site links to a variety of sources on ethics.
Page 12. Websites and Print Documents That Combine Usability and Persuasiveness
The sites listed below were all nominees for the 2006 Webby Awards. Evaluate them according to the criteria about usability and persuasiveness:
Page 21. Professional and Corporate Codes of Ethics
Use the following links to view the Codes of Ethics for each of the corporations whose logos appear on page 21.
Links to Additional Resources Related to this Chapter
The following organizations offer a wealth of resources for students, teachers, and professionals:
Association for Business Communication (ABC) is an international organization dedicated to research and practice in business communication; includes teachers and researchers from both educational and workplace settings who are interested in promoting improvements in workplace communication.
Association for Women in Communication provides the following mission statement: The AWC "is a professional organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines by recognizing excellence, promotion leadership and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era."
Alliance for Computers and Writing (ACW) promotes the use of computers in the teaching of writing; includes teachers and researchers from high schools, colleges, and universities.
American Communication Association (ACA) is a virtual community of people concerned about communications; membership is free. Their Communication Studies Center provides an annotated collection of communication related hyperlinks organized by subfields within the communication discipline.
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) fosters the development of technical communication by encouraging technical communication teachers and professional communicators to promote the discipline, both inside and outside the classroom.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide.
EDUCAUSE is a non-profit association whose missions is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
IEEE Professional Communication Society encourages professionals (primarily engineers and technical communicators) to develop skills for presenting information in written and oral forms in accurate, user friendly, and cross-culturally effective ways.
Public Relations Student Society of America, founded by the Public Relations Society of America, aims to cultivate a favorable and mutually advantageous relationship between students and professional public relations practitioners.
Society for Technical Communication (STC), is the largest professional organization serving technical communicators; their mission is "to improve the quality and effectiveness of technical communication for audiences worldwide."
These listservs are primarily targeted toward teachers, but the discussions provide contexts and suggestions for technical communicators:
Technical Communication—General Resources
The following is a mere sampling of the materials that can be found on the Internet.