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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">The latest issue of
<i>JBTC</i> is available on SAGE’s OnlineFirst. This special issue’s topic is Business and Technical Communication and COVID-19: Communicating in Times of Crisis. Jordan Frith,
<i>JBTC</i>’s book review editor, guest edited this issue. These articles of about 1,500 words respond to our ongoing health crisis. Because the articles are COVID-related, SAGE has made them freely available:
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/JBT/current">https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/JBT/current</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">The issue’s TOC appears below my signature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Best, Jo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">— <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">Jo Mackiewicz (“mack-uh-which” or “mack-uh-wits”)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">Professor and Coordinator, Rhetoric and Professional Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">Editor,
</span><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jbt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Journal of Business and Technical Communication</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">English Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">Iowa State University, 413 Ross Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1201<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">jomack@iastate.edu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Introduction to Business and Technical Communication and COVID-19: Communicating in Times of Crisis, Jordan Frith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Science communications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Misinformation Inoculation and Literacy Support Tweetorials on COVID-19, S. Scott Graham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Managing Gender Care in Precarity: Trans Communities Respond to COVID-19, Avery C. Edenfield<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Is It Fake News or Is It Open Science? Science Communication in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Amy Koerber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Valuing Expertise During the Pandemic, Sweta Baniya and Liza Potts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">The WHO Health Alert: Communicating a Global Pandemic with WhatsApp, Josephine Walwema<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Rural Health and Contextualizing Data, Erin Brock Carlson and Catherine Gouge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">‘‘Picturing’’ Xenophobia: Visual Framing of Masks During COVID-19 and Its Implications for Advocacy in Technical Communication, Tatiana Batova<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p2"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Data visualizations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Lean Data Visualization: Considering Actionable Metrics for Technical Communication, Gustav Verhulsdonck and Vishal Shah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Facts Upon Delivery: What Is Rhetorical About Visualized Models?, Chris A. Lindgren<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Misrepresenting COVID-19: Lying With Charts During the Second Golden Age of Data Design, Sara Doan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">‘‘Missing/Unspecified’’: Demographic Data Visualization During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Rachel Atherton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Protecting Pandemic Conversations: Tracing Twitter’s Evolving Content Policies During COVID-19, Lacy Hope<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Tracking the Differentiation of Risk: The Impact of Subject Framing in CDC Communication Regarding COVID-19, Kathryn Lambrecht<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Visual Risk Literacy in ‘‘Flatten the Curve’’ COVID-19 Visualizations, Timothy R. Amidon, Alex C. Nielsen, Ehren H. Pflugfelder, Daniel P. Richards, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Sonia H. Stephens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Institutional and corporate communications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Adapting Uncertainty Reduction Theory for Crisis Communication: Guidelines for Technical Communicators, Rob Grace and Jason Chew Kit Tham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Frozen Meat Against COVID-19 Misinformation: An Analysis of Steak-Umm and Positive Expectancy Violations, Ekaterina Bogomoletc and Nicole M. Lee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Creating Scripts for Crisis Communication: COVID-19 and Beyond, Kirk St.Amant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">We’re Here for You: The Unsolicited Covid-19 Email, Kristin Winet and Ryan L. Winet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Drafting Pandemic Policy: Writing and Sudden Institutional Change, Erin Workman, Peter Vandenberg, and Madeline Crozier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Zoombombing Your Toddler: User Experience and the Communication of Zoom’s Privacy Crisis, Sarah Young<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Pedagogy and research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Strange Days: Creating Flexible Pedagogies for Technical Communication, Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Culturally Situated Do-It-Yourself Instructions for Making Protective Masks: Teaching the Genre of Instructional Design in the Age of COVID-19, Sushil K. Oswal and Zsuzsanna B. Palmer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Researching Home-Based Technical and Professional Communication: Emerging Structures and Methods, Jennifer Bay and Patricia Sullivan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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