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STC India's 6th Annual Conference Technical Communication in India: New Heights, Better Sights. December 2-4, at Chennai STC India's annual conference is the largest gathering of technical communicators in India. Among the many highlights of the conference are educational sessions, workshops, discussions, vendor exhibits, and displays of the winning entries of the annual competition. The educational presentations/technical sessions in the conference will include paper presentations on following six areas of study, called "stems," namely Education and Training, Information Design, Management and Professional Development, Theory and Research, Tools and Technology, and Writing and Editing. Technical communication professionals will also benefit from the abundant networking and employment opportunities that the conference offers. Please check the future issues of INDUS for more information. For clarifications and further details, please write to Ramesh Aiyyangar, Program Manager of STC India 6th Annual Conference, or visit http://www.stc-india.org. STC India's Annual Competitions: Call for Entries STC India chapter recognizes the best in technical communication with awards of excellence and merit as part of its annual competitions every year. The STC India annual technical communication competitions are just around the corner! We invite you to an awesome opportunity to place yourself among the best in India and probably, the world! These competitions are open to all technical communication professionals; you do not have to be a member of STC to participate. STC offers the following competitions to evaluate professional technical communication in different media:
Includes forms of communication that depend on a computer or other electronic media for delivery.
Includes both physical media and online technical art products.
Printed material illustrating technical writing. These competitions have two tiers: local (chapter) or regional level, and international (Society-wide) level. An entry must win an award of Distinguished Technical Communication at the local or regional level to qualify for automatic submission to STC's international competitions. The STC India Annual Competition entry form a complete guide to the competitions for the year are available at http://stc-india.org/competitions/index.htm. Learning Sessions 19th June 2004, Mumbai Patni Computer Systems Limited
hosted an STC learning session in Mumbai on 19th June 2004. Vikram
Bhalchandra, Senior Manager from Patni and Narssimhan from Commit
presented the topics: Leveraging the Web for brand building in IT
Services and Zen and the Art of Technical Writing, respectively.
22nd
May 2004, Pune
A learning session was hosted with two presentations
at Bind View Corporation premises on May 22, 2004. Anahita Rane
Head, Corporate Communications,
C-DAC, delivered a presentation on Marketing
Communication and Gururaj B. S. presented on Elementary Grammar.
The Marketing Communication session
gave an overview of Marketing
Communication through various media including print, electronic, and
web with short, hands-on exercises.
4th July 2004, Chennai Gururaj B.S. conducted a "grammar clinic" at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, on 4th July. He covered elementary grammar, the nuances of technical writing style, and other style and grammar rules. Gururaj also gave tips on punctuation and explained the the syntactic differences between American and British English. The presentation helped the participants reinforce the rules of English grammar through interactive and hands-on exercises. 25th July 2004, Hyderabad STC conducted it seventh learning session in Hyderabad at ComputerAssociates (CA), Hyderabad. The session brought with it the usual learning experience blended with Hyderabadi hospitality, and gave abundant networking opportunities. Along with it, some surprises and gifts were in store for the participants. M.H. Jayalakshmi of CA conducted the learning session on "SDK/API Documentation" and gave a fine introduction to SDK/API documentation and gave examples the type of documents that technical writers create. 31st July 2004, Bangalore STC conducted a learning
session in Hewlett-Packard on the topics, "Managing a Documentation
Practice: Becoming a Profit Center" and "Stylistics: what is 'style'
and how does one define The challenge for most documentation teams is to gain organization attention and respect. The challenge is to grow from being a support team to becoming mainstream. Sairaj Vaithilingam's presentation explained how the Documentation Team that he manages at Cognizant has become a mainstream "profit making" group. In addition, his presentation also covered the best practices in managing a documentation team in terms of managing business, delivery, resources, and skills. This session by Gururaj B.S. and Shankar Rajanala was intended for technical writers and editors who need to know more about style and its variations. Style is defined, with regard to language, as 'a distinctive manner of expression (as in writing or speech)' and in particular as 'a convention with respect to spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and typographic arrangement and display followed in writing or printing.' The focus of the presentation was on styles, which are consciously defined and adhered to. The presentation explained the why and how of defining and adhering to the house-style. Hewlett-Packard provided the venue and logistics.
Citec India sponsored lunch at the event. STC India | Home | Contact Us |
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