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Re: STC Letter to the Editor

Subject: Re: STC Letter to the Editor
From: guy <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 00:43:40 -0800


Andrew Plato wrote:

[going on and on as usual about the Importance of Accuracy...]
. . .


And, as with all things STC, you have to PAY to enter the contest. Hence the
entries are limited to those people/companies that are willing to pony up the
$100 to enter. And of course, only STC members are allowed to enter. Once again
making another STC endevour lack any real credibility.


Probably the largest single competition outside of the international
STC competition is Touchstone, mounted by the six northern California
chapters: Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Berkeley, North Bay, East Bay,
and Sacramento annually: http://www.stc-touchstone.org

According to http://www.stc-touchstone.org/2002/entries.htm:

The Touchstone 2002 competition is open to everyone, not just members
of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).

The application form for judges at
http://www.stc-touchstone.org/2002/form_judges.htm
does ask whether you are an STC member or not. But the competition does
not reject non-STC volunteers.


As for objectively judging documents. The best person to judge a document is a
reader/user. Hence, I think if STC wants to make their competitions serious:

1. All can enter, not just STC members.
2. NON-STC judges.
3. Finalists must be run through a rigorous testing with actual users, not STC
members who are jockeying for positions of power. 4. Wipe out all the regional competitions and have one national one. Make it a
real honor to win.


Is Andrew aware that the best of the regional competitions feed into the INTERnational one?

--Guy K. Haas guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com or gkhaas -at- usa -dot- net
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
Immediate Past President of Silicon Valley STC
http://guy.blogs.at


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