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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:55:04 EDT
From:         rselfe@MTU.EDU
Subject:      tech writing communication

If anyone out there is teaching or knows of someone who is teaching a
technical communication course and wants to have their students talk to
mine about technical, professional, and ethical issues involved in the
publishing/computer-assisted publishing industry, have them contact me at
my personal address (rselfe@mtu.edu).  Last year I counted over 50 topics
covered.  The following is a list of most of those topics:

List of Major Topics In Last Year's E-mail conference Roughly Chronological

1.	Lame e-mail system
2.	Congress and e-mail systems
3.	Intellectual properties
4.	Ethic of Graphic Manipulation
5.	Plagiarism
6.	DTP opens up publishing
7.	Computer addition
8.	DTP and worker displacement
9.	Increase work load on editors from DTP
10.	Scientific/Engineering progress good?
11.	DTP increases # of bad publications
12.	Logistics of DTP91
13.	Request for research permission
14.	Test messages
15.	IBM/Mac integration
16.	Change name from DTP to CAP
17.	Projects you're working on?
18.	Time savings vs. Productivity
19.	Mac-oriented DTP and others
20.	Love of visuals and playing with designs
21.	DTP moving too fast
22.	We need hands-on cut and paste
23.	Choosing typefaces/fonts
24.	Previous training
25.	Communication & design across the curriculum
26.	Electrical Eng. across the curriculum
27.	Undervalued technical communicators	       	50.	Difficulties of
audience analysis
28.	salaries for professionals		                	51.	The magazine Before &
After
29.	Tech. Writers' skills				                    52.	Discussion derailed or
not
30.	Speaking French			                          	53.	Class description
(Purdue)
31.	Model cars				                               54.	Need for technical
knowledge
32.	Alternative music				                        55.	Technical information
safety nets
33.	Dr. Who and Prisoner				                     56.	Poem ("We're singing
the Body Electric")
34.	Tennis						                                  57.	Publishing advice for
Into Print (Purdue),
 								                                             Communique (MTU)
35.	MTU educational experience?			               58.	Need for computer
skills
36.	Ernie Harwell, will miss him		              	59.	Learning to learn
independently
37.	Chicago						                                 60.	Help with job
searching at MTU?
38.	Greg Kihn				                                	61.	Word processing vs.
DTP?
39.	Anyone from Michigan City?			                 62.	Engineering Blues
40.	Publication managers as censors		            63.	Look critically at
what you are doing.
41.	Photomanipulation and Censorship		           64.	Calm down the rhetoric
42.	Purpose of professional journals		           65.	Dangers of Flaming
43.	Economics of "truth"				                      66.	Advice on a better
publication program
44.	Education and Parents as censors		            67.	The ethics of editing
45.	Hard-copy blues/techno-anxiety		              68.	Next quarter?
46.	Technology and writing				                     71.	Expanding the
conversation?
47.	Weather
48.	Purdue program?
49.	MTU program

Make that over 70.
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