Notes from 48th International STC Conference
Chicago, Illinois, May 13-16, 2001

Dan Voss
Communications Department
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida
Lockheed Martin Corporation

This site contains notes taken from the technical sesssions at the 48th Annual International Conference of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) in Chicago, Illinois, May 13-16, 2001. Below is a hot-linked table of contents. Additional links to other sites and materials are provided within the notes from the various sessions. In some cases, handouts are available only in hard-copy form. To get copies, contact Dan Voss via e-mail.

For downloadable files of presentations from the conference, check out the Conference Web site.

Links to other Web sites expected to be valid at least until September 1, 2001.

Keynote Address

• "Keynote Address", Dewitt Jones.

Web-Related Sessions

• "Tell Me, Show Me, Let Me! Beyond TV Pictures of Paper Pages", William K. Horton and Katherine W. Horton, William Horton Consulting, Inc.
• "Making Information Visual: Creating Effective Web Pages", Janice (Ginny) Redish, Redish and Associates, Inc.
• "Introduction to Graphics for HTML", Neil E. Perlin, Hyper/Word Services.
• "A Storyboard-Based Web Development Cycle", Mark Carbrey, Monster.com.

Electronic Publishing and Documentation

• "Authoring in a Single-Source Environment", Joann Hackos, ComTech.
• "Editing On-Screen: Tools, Techniques, and Tips", David D. Dayton, University of Puerto Rico, and Carolyn D. Rude, Texas Tech University.

Telecommuting

• "Building Telecommuting Writer/Editor Relationships", Christopher J. Morris and Pat J. Adams, Juniper Networks, Inc.

Scientific Writing

• "Scientific Writing":
  "Writing About Science for General Audiences", Donald C. Samson, Jr., Radford University
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  "Careful Scientific Writing: A Guide for the Nitpicker, the Novice, and the Nervous", Elaine R. Firestone, SAIC General Sciences Corporation.

Integrated Strategic Communication

• "The Bucket Brigade: Mobilizing Communications Resources to Extinguish Company or Client Fires", Dan Voss and W.C. Wiese, Communications Department, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control-Orlando.

Special Needs in Technical Communication

• "Year II and Growing: A Report from STC's Special Needs Committee", Mark Hanigan, Dan Voss, Gloria Reece, Fabien Vais, and Andy Malcolm.

Comments or suggestions regarding the 48th International STC Conference notes? Please e-mail Dan Voss at daniel.w.voss@lmco.com.