Students Members of STC:
Call for Posters

This year at the 54rd Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication in Minneapolis, MN, May 13–16, 2007, students will have the chance to submit poster presentations.

Conference Theme

Share Your Wisdom, Knowledge and Experience

If you’ve done innovative work in communicating technical content, managing a technical communication group, producing and publishing content, researching content, or promoting the profession, we invite you to submit a poster to the Technical Communication Summit, the 54th Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication.

Format

Poster format will be 3 feet by 5 feet. Posters should follow standard poster formats with easy to read columns, large print, and strategic and interesting use of graphics. You can obtain poster format templates from a number of Internet locations, including http://www.postersession.com/ .

You will, like all presenters, be responsible for producing your own handouts.

Criteria and Number

The number of posters will be limited to 15 for this year. Poster proposals submitted will be reviewed by a panel of both academics and practitioners and will be selected on the following criteria:

• Knowledge: What you learned and applied in service-learning projects and real-world client projects tied to class work
• Experiences: What you learned through internships and working as technical communicators that you were able to reflect on as students
• Research Results: Knowledge that you created through usability, survey, interview, and other class and education-related research
• Best Practices: Activities associated with publications management, content management, document design, usability testing, or user or audience analysis that put your class experience to work in the real world.

Deadlines

• November 1: Proposal submission
• December 31: Notification of acceptance.

How to Submit

Send a PDF of your poster and the Application form (posted at http://stc-ac.org/) to Beth Bailey, the Student Poster Session Coordinator at ebaileyL@verizon.net.