STC WDC-MB Blog

RESCHEDULED TO JAN 20th Plan to join us at Guapo’s (Fiesta Room) in Bethesda for a lively, enlightening discussion with six academics from four area universities who teach in the field of technical communication. As you can see from their bios, they are involved in tech comm from a variety of perspectives and are sure [...]

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(May only be a problem with IE browser.) Unfortunately, we are experiencing a problem with the events calendar portion of this blog site, which we’re trying to de-bug. For now, you can see when events are scheduled, but clicking on them produces a blank page. As a workaround, scroll through the blog posts themselves. You’ll see [...]

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Happy New Year, STCers! Merger News: The Washington, DC and the Metro Baltimore chapters are merging. The logistics are being worked out now with STC, so we’ll have more news as the process unfolds. The leaders of both chapters have polled their members and received a favorable response to the merger proposal. We believe we can offer [...]

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We’ve revised, streamlined, and focused the job descriptions for our elected officers and directors who serve on our chapter’s administrative council. The voting period to elect new officers will begin in the next few days. Please see these new job descriptions, which replace the descriptions currently posted on the chapter’s website. Google Docs link:  https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwfX7Ak09QqUYWEyMTUzZTctNDdjZi00ZmI2LWFiYTMtNmI4MDI2Y2MwMGEw&authkey=CJ2UhpwP&hl=en

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The STC Instructional Design & Learning (IDL) SIG announces scholarship opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students. Purpose The IDL SIG scholarship was created to assist students who are pursuing an undergraduate degree, graduate degree, or certificate in the area of Instructional Design. Students applying for this scholarship are expected to demonstrate their focus on topics [...]

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What are the ClearMark and WonderMark awards? Starting in 2010, the Center for Plain Language will be giving ClearMark awards to the best examples of plain language in several categories WonderMark awards to the worst examples Join us in celebrating the best—and lampooning the worst—examples of communication. Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2010 Who may [...]

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