Research Catalog

Title

IPCC 93 proceedings : the new face of technical communication, people, processes, products : October 5-8, 1993, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Author

International Professional Communication Conference (1993 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Publication

New York : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

IEEE Professional Communication Society.

Description

x, 438 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Alternative Title

New face of technical communication

Subject

• Communication of technical information > Congresses
• Technical writing > Congresses
• Information technique > Congrès
• Rédaction technique > Congrès
• Communication of technical information
• Technical writing

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Cover and spine title: 1993 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference.
• "IEEE catalog number 93CH3367-0"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• IPCC 93 invited speakers -- The Evolution of a Technical Writing Course / Deborah Stocker -- Uses Of Language In Collaborative Design Teams / Barbara Lewis -- How Audience Analysis Keeps Engineers Customer-focused / Marian G. Barchilon -- Creating Shared Understandings in Software Design / Cynthia Haller -- Information Design: A Human Factors Approach To A New Typography / William M. Gribbons -- Structure and Form: Strengthening Selling Documents / Octavio Ramos, Jr. -- What Do Users Really Want From Computer Documentation? / Georgiana E. Mitchell -- Using International English to Prepare Technical Text for Translation / Ileana Buican, Vivi Hriscu and Mable Amador -- Accent Training For New Arrivals / Morusupalli R. Rao -- Editors, "Good English," and International Readers / Charles P. Campbell and Philip Bernick -- Around the World in 80 Days: Typesetting Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, and Thai / Catherine L. Strange -- The Technical Communications Group: Adding Value to an Organization / Anthony J. Smaczniak, Shelly Martin-Fisher, Joan Burns and Judith Sereno -- When the Writer Isn't A Technical Person / Dina Baker -- Technical Support: A Valuable Voice / Susan Hart -- Team writing / Kathleen R. Milhaven -- Experience Transfer in Statoil / Arnstein J. Borstad, Vidar Hepso, Jan Onarheim, Bjorn Tvedte, Arthur B. Aune and Kjersti Engelsen -- The Technical Document Production Process at the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project / Carmen Silva
• Computer-Aided Teaching of Thermoelectrical Power Plant Operation / Guillermo Rodriguez and Sergio Villavicencio -- Hype, Hypertext, and Reality: What the Research Tells Us About Hypertext / Donald E. Zimmerman, Martha Tipton, Linda Bilsing and Dana Green -- Designing for Dual Delivery: On-line and Paper, A Hypertext Solution / Gloria A. Reece and Howard J. Scheiber -- Hypertext Technology In Information Design / Susan Mings, Cheryl Geisler and Edwin Rogers -- Revitalizing Professional Communications: The Internet Challenge / Linda J. Kosmin -- Science Fiction for Technical Communications / Miki Magyar -- Paper What? / Israel Greenfeld -- A Standard-based Approach to Text and Hypertext Mutual Conversion and Interchange / Min Zheng and Roy Rada -- Empty Pathways: Faculty Use of Computer Mediated Communication / Julie A. Held, Christine Y. Fitzpatrick and Julie E. Sharp -- Electronic Communication in a University Campus / Mei-Hung Wang -- Directions for Computer-Mediated Scholarship / John December -- Internationally speaking... / Nancy C. Corbin -- Implications of a Market Economy for Technical Communications in Russia / Michael B. Goodman -- International Communication and Its Role in International Business / Deborah L. Flaherty Kizer and Joseph Petraitis -- Strategies for Preparing and Teaching a Course on Technical and Business Communication to a Foreign-language Audience / Ron S. Blicq -- Three Ways To Enliven a Deadly Presentation To a Nontechnical Audience / Peter Reimold
• Communicating with non-technical audiences: How much do they know? / Bernadette Longo -- The Non-Technical Audience: A Vanished Species? / Julie A. Longo -- Collecting and Incorporating Feedback from Customers: The Usefulness of Telephone Surveys / Lenore S. Ridgway and Roger A. Grice -- Using a Procedures Database to Support Project-Specific Procedures Based on a Master Process / Robert W. Holloran and Ralph A. Butler -- Developing a Master Process for the Office of Nuclear Safety / Maggie Sturdivant, W. Earl Cranes and Daniel Ford -- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Systems / Constantine Stivaros -- Understanding Statistics As A Tool For Interpreting Research / Laurel K. Grove -- Women in Technical and Scientific Fields: Results of a National Survey / Carolyn Boiarsky, Patricia Earnest, Laurel Grove, Barbara Northrop and Marianne Phillips -- Video Production and Technical Education / Peter Wiesner -- Use of Satellite Technology / Robert G. Kahrmann -- A New Era in International Technical Communication: American-Russian Collaboration / Madelyn Flammia, Rebecca O. Barclay, Thomas E. Pinelli, Michael L. Keene, Robert H. Burger and John M. Kennedy -- Technical Communications Practices and the Use of Information Technologies As Reported by Dutch and U.S. Aerospace Engineers / Rebecca O. Barclay, Thomas E. Pinelli and Axel S. T. Tan -- IEEE United States Activities Board -- An Overview / Gerald W. Gordon -- The Professional Activities Council for Engineers (PACE) / Janet Rochester -- Technical Policy Council / Andrew Malcolm
• New Frontiers for Engineering Communication: Evolution of Communication Vehicles / Roger A. Grice and Lenore S. Ridgway -- "New" Audiences: The Role of Technological Innovation in Audience Definition / Roger D. Theodos -- Instructional Design for Training: A Case Study on Educating Computer Users in Complex Tasks / Barbara Mirel -- Electronic Automation as an Alternative to Learning Computer Tasks / Robert Krull, Daniel Dionne and Elizabeth Weise -- The Wizard of Cause / Kathryn A. Walling and Catherine L. Strange -- User Interface Design for a CD-ROM Product / Teresa Lau -- Access Methods for Online Information: A Cost/Benefit Approach to Users' Choices / Tom Carey, Blair Nonnecke, Dov Lungu and John Mitterer -- Answers to Questions about Questions-and-Answers / Frederick J. Bethke and Claudia M. Hunter -- The Neglect of Writing in Technical Writing / Don Bush -- Balancing The "Me, Myself, and I" in Technical Communication / D. Roger Johnson -- Secrets of the Great Communicators / Cheryl Reimold -- Technical Writer, Technology Writer: Using the trade media to build recognition for your organization and extend your professional skills / Robert A. Duffy -- Retraining Industrial Employees for a Career in Programming / Arnold J. Cohen -- Technical and Business Communication for Entrepreneurs / Patrick O. Nunally and S. Michael Saad -- Getting the Most Out of Your Professional Communications: A Total Quality Approach / Dheeraj (Raj) Khera -- Successful Collaborative Communications / Paul R. Seesing and Laurel K. Grove
• The Communicator's Role in Project Teams / D. K. Hilliard -- Information Mapping on the Macintosh / Janice Y. Brosius -- Balancing Visual and Verbal Modes of Presenting Information: Diagnostic Tools for Making Effective Choices / Robert Krull, Nancy Bayer and Elizabeth Keyes -- Information Mapping the PCS Constitution and Bylaws / Pamela R. Kostur -- Skimmers -- How to Reach Our New Audience / Kathy A. Kaufman and Ruby M. Tebelak -- Risk Analysis Communication / Michael T. Brosius -- A Model for Establishing a Risk Communication Committee in Your Organization / Carol R. Wade, Cynthia H. Phillips, Geraldine M. Edwards, J. Joan Farnum, Susan H. Klein and Sheila T. Molony -- Disarming NIMBY with the Facts: Field notes on Explaining Controversial Technologies for Concerned Audiences / Robert A. Duffy and Linda Craven -- Collaborative Writing on the Job: Secrets Your Writing Teachers Never Taught You / George F. Hayhoe -- Curriculum for Technical Communication in the Computer Industry / Julianne Edmunds and Rachel Garb -- Solutions for Training the Professional When Money Is Tight / Susan Feinberg -- Effective Training Techniques: Oral Versus Written / Reta Douglas and Mary Sue MacNealy -- OOW, It's Object-Oriented Writing / Paul Reitman -- Quality Metrics for ISO 9000 Documents / Edmond H. Weiss -- Structuring Document Libraries for the 90's / Stephanie Rosenbaum and Laurie Kantner -- The Cooperative Development of Linux / James Wiegand
• Electronic Bulletin Boards Alleviate Time Zones, Increasing Efficiency / Joseph M. Campagna -- Cross-Site Writing and Shared Responsibilities: A Team Effort / Helen P. Arzu and Pamela S. Helyar -- Channeling: A Contextual Approach to Internal and External Communications / Linda Loehr -- How To Improve Communication with Co-Workers and Subject Matter Experts / Carol Baldwin -- University Minority Engineering Programs / Milan Dakich -- IEEE Business Meeting Experiment with Video Teleconferencing / David G. Green and David A. Conner -- Video Teleconferencing and the Integration of Effective Communications Systems / Robert J. Fini -- Collaboration: Chaos or Creative Opportunity / Laurie Modrey and Emily Sopensky -- Enhancing Electrical Engineering Students' Communication Skills Using Online and Hypertext Aids / Donald E. Zimmerman and Michael Palmquist -- Developing Communications Skills in Engineering Classes / M. Robert Baren and James Watson -- IPCC 94 in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

ISBN

• 0780314662
• 9780780314665
• 0780314654
• 9780780314658
• 0780314670
• 9780780314672

LCCN

93061201

OCLC

• ocm29422476
• 29422476
• SCSB-1999984

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library