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Volume 25, Number 2
October 2008
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STC News

2009 STC 56th Annual Conference – Call for Proposals

The Technical Communication Summit, the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication, will be held 3–6 May 2009.

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To submit a proposal, visit http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009.

Elizabeth Pohland, New STC Intercom Editor

The STC Office has selected Elizabeth Pohland to serve as the new editor of Intercom. For many years, Pohland, an STC member, served the Folger Shakespeare Library as editor and designer of the scholarly journal Shakespeare Quarterly, as consultant to the Folger Magazine (a membership publication), and as contributor to the Folger Web site and branding, among multiple other publications and multimedia projects.

Pohland brings to Intercom over ten years of extensive experience as an editor, content and production manager, designer, and writer. She introduced usability and readability standards to the Folger’s publications, and she has researched new technologies in editorial management software. Her freelance editing includes topics as diverse as Japanese animé, baseball, and memoirs.

“We are especially pleased to have selected an editor with excellent credentials who is also an STC member and understands technical communication,” said Susan Burton, STC executive director. “I was also excited to see several candidates mention they were STC members in their resumes.”

Pohland received her bachelor’s degree in English and French from Hollins University; a master’s in English from Virginia Tech University, where she interned with distinguished professor and poet Nikki Giovanni and won an award for her thesis; and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University.

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