Competitions

Welcome to the 2007-2008 Southwestern Ontario Chapter STC Competition website.

This forum provides the information you need to participate in the competition. The Southwestern Ontario Chapter STC is not having its own competition this year, but working with the Toronto Chapter STC. We ask that you please send your entries to the Toronto Chapter STC (details listed below), and please mention that you learned about the competition on the Southwestern Ontario Chapter's website. Read on for more details.

Deadline for entries is 5 pm on Friday, November 16th, 2007. The competition committee invites entries to the competition and volunteers for judging.

More Information: Go to http://stctoronto.org and click the links for Competition.
Entry Form: Download at http://stctoronto.org/competition/STCTOR_07EntryForm.doc.
Competition Blog: http://stctorcomp.blogspot.com.

Call for Entries

The competition is the best way to get constructive feedback on your work. A team of three judges evaluates your entry against carefully chosen criteria, determines an award level, and then provides written suggestions for improvement. Top-level award winners are automatically forwarded to the International Competition where they compete against entries from other STC communities.

This year, the competition is accepting entries in the following categories:

  • Online communication
  • Technical art
  • Technical publication.

Southwestern Ontario Chapter STC Entries

If you are learning about the competition through this email, then make sure you mark your entry form with "Southwestern Ontario Chapter STC - Email". This enables us to keep track of which advertising method is working best, and which chapter the entry came from.

Send or deliver your entry package to:
STC Toronto 2007 Competition
c/o Front Runner Training
21 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 402
Toronto ON. M4T 1L8

The deadline is 5 pm on Friday, November 16th, 2007.

Questions? Contact Milan Davidovic, Toronto STC Competition Manager, at competition2007@stctoronto.org.

Call for Judges

The competition committee is recruiting judges to evaluate the technical publication and online communication entries for this year's competition! Are you an expert in online help? Can you author a manual like nobody's business? Are you qualified to judge their work of your peers?

Judges are an integral part of the contribution. Not only do judges evaluate the entries against specific criteria, they also provide written constructive criticism that the entrants value over any award level. Acting as a judge is a valuable experience that exposes you to work produced by your peers and lets you gather ideas about technical communication.

Qualifications

To be a judge, you must meet at least one of the following criteria:

  • have 5 years experience as a technical communicator
  • be recognized and well-known in the field of technical communication
  • be an award winner in a past STC Competition
  • taught courses or given presentations in the field of technical communication
  • published papers or articles in the field of technical communication
  • been a judge in a previous STC Competition

Contact Milan Davidovic, Toronto STC Competition Manager, at competition2007@stctoronto.org.

Past Competition results

2006-2007

Publications winners | About this year's results

2004-2005

Publications winners | About this year's results

2003-2004

Publications winners | About this year's results

2001-2002

Online winners | Publications winners |  About this year's results

2000-2001

Online winners | Publications winners