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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>x-posted</span> everywhere cause we want to read your great ideas! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Dear Colleagues,<br style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Joanna Schreiber and I welcome proposals for <i>Foundational Knowledge and Innovative Practices in Technical and Professional Communication</i>. We hope this book will provide common ground for sub-specialties to better speak to each other as well as a foundation for those entering the discipline, whether that entry is from another discipline, through graduate school, or through upper-division undergraduate courses. The CFP is linked below and below my signature :<br><br></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="http://tek-ritr.com/cfp-opportunity/">http://tek-ritr.com/cfp-opportunity/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Deadlines is 7-31.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Happy Saturday,</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Lisa</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Lisa Melon</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>ç<span style='color:black'>on, PhD</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Co-Editor, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__journals.upress.ufl.edu_rhm&d=DwMFaQ&c=l45AxH-kUV29SRQusp9vYR0n1GycN4_2jInuKy6zbqQ&r=pixVoNlEUATCd42x07Q5ArPXRPzmxr7XUhwZ3R0VPL8&m=Shj3vbvM5sT5RXbA2Q4DPfyv9-MYu0r9-86YpB-c3Jo&s=kHZQlabmFC-di_7ldUObKDW_e4L69mcKBtbd9nAiW_U&e=">http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Series Editor: Foundations and Innovations in Technical and Professional Communication (https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Associate Professor, Professional & Technical Communication</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Department of English</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>University of South Florida</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>4202 Fowler Avenue, CPR 311</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Tampa, FL 33620-5550</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>803-370-0008 (mobile)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Email: meloncon [at] tek-ritr dot com OR meloncon [at ]usf dot edu</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>http://tek-ritr.com</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Digital office: Skype @lisameloncon</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Twitter: @lmeloncon</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>----</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>As the field of technical and professional continues to grow both academically and professionally, the goal of this book project is to bring together diverse scholarly voices to broaden our understanding of what technical and professional communication is and given those definition(s), a discussion of important and innovative theories, concepts, and practices. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Building from its early history and connection to engineering, computer science, and scientific fields, technical and professional communication now addresses a range of industries, organizations, sites, and locations including everything from technology to healthcare to non-profits. Technical and professional communication practices are central to facilitating complex communication concerns, with increasingly specialized subject matter and through emerging technologies. These ongoing changes are matched by the field’s long standing commitment to building flexible and ethical professional communication knowledge and practices, and this book is designed to bring into focus the foundational knowledge necessary to prepare researchers and practitioners to develop and design emerging communication practices with those values.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>We have approached this project by thinking through some of the major areas that have not received the type of scholarly attention that is crucial to sustaining technical and professional communication’s research and identity. Thus, we start with addressing the names and terminologies used to actually characterize the field (e.g., Faber 2002; Schreiber, Carrion, & Lauer, 2018), and then, building from these foundational definition(s), Section Two addresses theories or theoretical approaches (e.g., Graham, 2015; Potts, 2014; Scott et al, 2006) that TPC uses. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>The project moves from these foundational definitions and theories in the first two sections to emerging and innovative approaches to topics and practices in the last two sections. The lists we provide here as well as the questions below are intended to spark innovation about both traditional and emerging topics and practices. Section Three will identify and examine technical and professional communication’s key topics and concepts, both traditional and emerging, such as usability (e.g., Rose, 2016); content management (e.g., Andersen & Batova, 2015); information design (e.g., Schriver, 2017); accessibility (e.g., Meloncon, 2013; Oswal, 2018); workplace practices, widely defined, (e.g., Friess, 2018; Spilka, 1993), and international and cultural communication (e.g., St.Amant, 2015). </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>We ask potential contributors to consider the following questions related to the overall question each of the four major sections seeks to address. These are not an exhaustive list, but are provided as a starting point: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>How might we define technical and professional communication for the 21st century and beyond?</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>The goal of this section is to provide readers with a general overview of the scope, major concerns, and the relationships among the many names of the field. </span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What are the differences, similarities, and overlapping concerns among and between technical communication, professional communication, and more specialized communication such as risk communication?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How and where does business communication fit or intersect with technical and professional communication? Are there more apt terms we should be using?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Is professional communication the overarching term in which others fit, and if so, why? </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How does TPC’s emphasis on clear and/or plain language effect the definition and identity of the field? </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How do we develop a sustainable identity for the field?</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>What are our guiding theoretical frameworks? </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>The goal of this section is to provide readers with broad understanding of major theoretical frameworks as well as the relationships among these frameworks.</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What theories are a must for a technical and professional communicator to know?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How might long standing theories, such as genre theory or activity theory, need to be reimagined?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What new theories for long standing practices, such as usability or visual design, need to be built to better understand?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How do we effectively develop and reimagine frameworks to address global and cultural concerns?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What theories and frameworks are emerging (e.g., posthumanism or social justice) and/or complicating traditional theories? </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What theories or theoretical frameworks have remained durable, that we need to ensure we do not lose, and/or have them remain flexible and sustainable over time?</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>What are important and field defining concepts?</span></i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><br>This section describes both traditional and emerging topics, concepts, and locations for professional and technical communication research and practice.</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What does the shift to user experience mean for usability and design?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How has information design shifted with new and easy-to-access technologies?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How do we expand the role of accessibility, inclusion, and diversity in our work and in the industries we serve? </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How do we address the overlapping concerns of information architecture and content strategy?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How do TPC concepts help build ethical practices and organizations?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How might we reconceive of audience(s) in a distributed and mobile environments?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What challenges do emerging locations and industries raise for the field?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>How can TPC more directly impact issues within the public sphere around participation, inclusion, and equality?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What new concepts is TPC missing within our engagement with communication practices?</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>How do definitions, theories, and concepts work in practice?</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>This section of shorter chapters (4-5k words) is meant to provide innovative case studies, researched effective practices, and instructional texts related to central topics and concerns in technical and professional communication. For example, consider topics such as communication workflow design and developing subject matter expertise. Please contact us with your ideas.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Proposal Requirements</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Length<br>500 to 750 words (not including references)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Structure</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>clear topic or research question; </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>clear research method or conceptual framework; </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>clear take-aways and/or implications/applications; </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>citations</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Questions and Feedback</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>We strongly encourage you to contact us with queries, and we will be happy to provide feedback on your proposals. Email to Joanna Schreiber at jschreiber@georgiasouthern.edu with any questions and concerns.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Due Date</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>July 31, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Submission:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Send complete submissions in .docx to Lisa Melonçon at meloncon@tek-ritr.com </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Timeline**</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Proposal decisions — August 15</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Manuscript Draft One due — January 15</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Editorial Feedback — February 15</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Manuscript Draft Two due — March 15</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Reviewer Feedback and Publication Decisions — May 15</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Manuscript Draft Three due — June 15</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Publication Fall 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>**Pending a successful peer review, this will be one of the first volumes published in the WAC Clearinghouse/CSU Press TPC Foundations and Innovations book series <https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>References</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Andersen, R., & Batova, T. 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