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Saturday, June 18th, 2011Seneca College’s Technical Communication Program was acknowledged with a Silver Sponsorship award for providing support to the 2010 Career Day event held by the Toronto community of the STC. In addition, we were delighted to see one of our grads, Noor Hussain, win the Distinguished Service Award for Students for his outstanding contributions to the [...]
What You Can Do as a Technical Communicator
Thursday, March 17th, 2011Listen to the podcast, download the handout, and review the PowerPoint given by Beth Agnew at the STC Career Day, Sep 25, 2010. In this presentation, Beth talks about the many roles technical communicators can fill, the types of work they do, and the value they add to any organization. She likens them to “Swiss [...]
Correction to Schedule
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010For our new Tech Comm students starting the program in the Fall, it seems there has been an error on the timetable that was sent to you, and TCN705 was inadvertently left off. Here’s the correct schedule: TECC Timetable – Fall 2010 – 1st half M T W R F 08:00 No Classes TCN709 TCN708 [...]
My Writers
Friday, August 6th, 2010I teach technical communication at Seneca College here in Toronto. I am also the co-ordinator of the 1-year post graduate technical communication program, so I see these particular students for more than a full year. They are “mine”. They often contact me before they apply to the program so that they can have questions answered. [...]
FSOSS 2009 & Documentation
Saturday, October 31st, 2009Concluding Open Source week in Toronto, Seneca held its annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) yesterday. I was privileged to have the opportunity to speak about documentation for open source projects. What is truly exciting about open source development is the collaborative and community aspect of it. I love the synergy of keen [...]
One of the Best?
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Beth Agnew, co-ordinator of the Seneca Tech Comm Program and instructor for a number of our courses, has been nominated in TVO’s 2010 Best Lecturer Competition. A video of her class about Usability will be sent to TVO for further review. TVO staff and a panel of experts will determine the top 20, and then [...]
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