IEEE Professional Communication Society Newsletter • ISSN 1539-3593 • Volume 52, Number 3 • March 2008

A Structured Approach to Selling

By Mike Unwalla

Potential clients come to me for help with their software user documentation. They have the implicit question, "How can a technical communicator help me in a cost-effective way?" If I successfully answer that question, my company is likely to gain a new client....Read more.

How to Prepare A Winning Book Proposal

By John Hedtke

Preparing a winning book proposal is very similar to bidding on many other freelance documentation projects. This article will show you how to create a book proposal that will give you the best chance of selling your book idea to the publisher you want... Read more.

  • Jobs

    Faculty Sought

    The Department of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in media, language, and digital writing, to begin September 2008...Read more

  • IPCC 2008

    Montreal, Quebec 13-16 July

    The 2008 conference will focus on the theme of “Opening the Information Economy.” The idea is that we are all a part of the information economy, and by participating in it, we both shape and are shaped by the information economy and its practices.....Read more.

  • Writing

    Clear Writing

    I recently did an Internet search for "clear writing" and frequently came up with the same list of "10 principles of clear writing". Each one is a piece of very good advice; however the list has two faults...Read more.

  • History

    Dolly Dahle

    "Never was there a field of writing so full of promises for the writer. The writers who respond to the demands of this fantastically big and incredibly rich field will not be writers who have to live in cold garrets and grimly starve for their art. They will be writers who loll beside warm swimming pools and..." Read More.

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