Resources for Research
I’ve created this page primarily for graduate students in my department, but I hope it’s also useful for others who are looking for a consolidated list of scholarly resources in Professional & Technical Communication. If you see that I’ve left something out, contact me and let me know!
Journals:
Business Communications Review
Business Communicator
Communications of the ACM
Corporate Communications
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications
Journal Of Business Communication
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
SAE Technical Paper Series
Technical Communication
Technical Communication Quarterly
Technical Communication Online
You can also find pertinent articles in the central journals of Rhet/Comp:
College English
College Composition and Communication
Computers and Composition
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
And finally, here are some organizations that focus on these issues from scholarly, pedagogical, and pragmatic viewpoints:
American Medical Writers Association: http://www.amwa.org/
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing: http://www.attw.org/
Council for Programs in Technical & Scientific Comm.: http://www.cptsc.org
IEEE Professional Communication Society: http://www.ieeepcs.org/
National Association of Science Writers: http://nasw.org/
Society for Technical Communication: http://www.stc.org/