Ed. Katherine Judge, ISSN 0953-3699.
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Contents
Features
- Prioritising your workload. Prioritise your tasks by climbing ladders and avoiding snakes at work! Christopher Wright
- Top 10 proofreading tips. Helping you correct and improve your work when proofreading. John Espirian
- Female practitioners: a qualitative study. Sharing dissertation research into the misunderstandings around women in technical communication. Emily January Petersen
- Creating compliant manuals for the US. Explaining how to create compliant manuals and avoid legal pitfalls when selling your product on the US market. Ferry Vermeulen
- How to write a winning proposal. Presenting a sales pitch in writing is a challenge. This article provides some hints and tips to get you started. Alison Reeves
- Innovating techcomm education. Collaborating with industry and academic stakeholders to tell the story of developing a new third-level programme. Siobhán Ní Chatháin
- Implementing Swagger with API docs. Creating interactive documentation for your REST API. Tom Johnson
- Procedures and functions. Saving the repetition of VBA code. Mike Mee
Regular columns
- From the editor
- President’s View
- Award news
- Editing – Jean Rollinson
- Ethical dilemmas – Warren Singer
- MadCap tips – Matthew Ellison
- Book review – Writing for Science Journals: Tips, Tricks, and a Learning Plan by Geoff Hart. Reviewed by: Jean Rollinson MISTC.
- A day in the life – Elaina Crehan
Supplement
Special Supplement: Science Communication
This supplement can be downloaded via this link: Science Communication.
- Bringing Science to life. STEM weekends are now offered at Butlin’s to inspire families to get involved with science. Julian Highfield, Butlin’s Minehead
- Inspirational scientific communication. Looking at the ‘S’ of ISTC, to find out what technical communicators can learn a lot from our scientific counterparts. Alison Peck, ISTC President
- Engaging the public. Exploring the various methods used to engage the public in science and environmental issues. Tim Clabon, Senior Production Technologist.
- Questions and answers with a science illustrator. The illustrator of the Horrible Science series, explains his background and how he illustrates scientific subjects. Tony De Saulles, freelance designer, writer and illustrator
- Science is ageless. How do you solve problems in a family group? Together? Does the junior school child take charge or does the adult? Tom Briggs, Bletchley Park
- What does Outreach mean to the Science Museum? Looking at who visits the Museum and how the Museum visits schools, national and international events, bringing science to the people. Kenny Webster, Science Museum
- Dissections in At-Bristol Science Centre. Sharing a case study describing how science information is presented to varied audiences about facilitating conversations around human biology. Alice Barber, At-Bristol
- Sentiments, surnames and so long EU. Communicating topical statistics. Julian Stander, University of Plymouth; Luciana Dalla Valle, University of Plymouth; and Mario Cortina Borja, University College London