Welcome to the Birmingham Society for Technical CommunicationCategory: General STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. It is the largest organization of its type in the world. Welcome to the Birmingham STC Chapter! Although we meet in Birmingham, our membership is diverse and includes people from Central Alabama to the Gulf and from Mississippi to Georgia. Our chapter is well-rounded with technical communicators from a variety of industries including insurance, telecommunications, health care, banking, manufacturing, and academia. We are committed to furthering our knowledge in technical communication and creating great networking opportunities among our peers. If you want to learn more about our field and STC, come join us at the next meeting!
Brenda Cole Birmingham STC 2010 ScholarshipCategory: Announcements Auburn University and the Birmingham STC have awarded the 2010 Donald H. Cunningham Award for Academic Excellence in Technical and Professional Communication to Katie Mullinax. About KatieI am originally from Southside, AL (just outside of Gadsden), and I completed my BA in English literature at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. While at UAB, I became interested in professional writing, so I worked as an editorial intern for Thicket Magazine and as a columnist for UAB's student newspaper. Through these experiences, I discovered that I am much more interested in technical and professional communication than in literature. A former classmate at UAB and MTPC student, Cassity Hughes (who was also a Thicket intern), told me about how much she was enjoying Auburn's MTPC program, so I decided to apply. Being an MTPC student has been a wonderful experience so far. My favorite thing about the program is the multitude of experiences I get to have. In class, I learn about document and web design, editing, technical communication theory, and rhetorical criticism. Outside the classroom, I teach freshman composition as a graduate assistant, transcribe and code data as a project assistant, and write and edit documents for the College of Engineering. I know my MTPC degree will prepare me to be a well-rounded technical communicator. After I graduate from Auburn, I plan to enter Ph.D. school to study how the effective use of digital communications can help create agency for nonprofits. I volunteer at the Lee County Humane Society, and I'd like to help such organizations create documents that will promote their aims. The scholarship that your chapter has so generously given me will be a great help this fall when I am applying to doctoral programs. The funds you have awarded me will help me pay application fees and send GRE scores and transcripts to the schools I am interested in. Ideally, I will eventually have a career as a technical communicator, working both in industry and in academia. Thank you so much for this scholarship--it will be a great help to me as I look toward my future! |
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