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PW Organizations

Please note that this collection of links is nowhere near comprehensive. Here, we present a general collection of resources that students should find helpful. Students who require more information or who have specific questions should see the Director of Professional Writing, the instructors of their Professional Writing courses, or the Writing Center.

Writers' Bloc
(the Professional Writing student organization at Michigan State University)
http://adalus.wide.msu.edu/~wbloc/

Intro to Technical and Professional Writing
(field-related information, materials, and resources)

"An Introduction to the Work of Technical Communicators" by Saul Carliner
http://saulcarliner.home.att.net/idbusiness/workoftcs.htm

"What is Technical Communication?"
Milwaukee School of Engineering
http://www.msoe.edu/gen_st/tc/what.shtml

"What is Professional Writing?"
notes and materials from a PW workshop, spring 2006
http://www.msu.edu/~wrac/pw/workshops/what_is.html

Professional Organizations

Alliance for Computers and Writing
http://www2.nau.edu/acw/

Association for Teachers of Technical Writing
http://www.attw.org/default.asp

Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
http://www.cptsc.org

IEEE Communications Society
http://www.comsoc.org

IEEE Professional Communication Society
http://www.ieeepcs.org

SIGDOC: Special Interest Group for the Design of Communications
http://www.acm.org/sigdoc

Society for Technical Communication
http://www.stc.org

Usability Professionals Association
http://www.upassoc.org

Journals & Magazines

Intercom
http://www.stc.org/intercom/intercom.asp

Journal of Business and Technical Communication
http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=48

Technical Communication Online
http://www.techcomm-online.com

TECHWR-L Magazine
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/index.html

Email/Discussion Lists

TECHWR-L
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/techwhirllist/index.html

Professional/Technical Writing Program Listings

Society for Technical Communication
http://www.stc.org/edu/academic01.asp

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