Open Technical Communication

Authors

Tiffani Reardon, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow
Tamara Powell, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow
Jonathan Arnett, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow
Monique Logan, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow
Cassandra Race, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow

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Description

*The content on this page has been exported from SoftChalk as a PDF, therefore, the formating, videos, and interactivity from the original project have been removed. For a full, online version of the textbook, please visit here.*

Open TC is a freely accessible online textbook for technical communication, technical writing, workplace writing, and other related courses. Currently in its third rendition, it's had an interesting history. In 2015, Dr. Tamara Powell at Kennesaw State University gathered us, a team of like-minded colleagues, to develop an Open Educational Resource that would allow us to move away from a well-respected but very expensive textbook and towards something equally as valuable but more affordable for students. Our team applied for and received an Affordable Learning Georgia grant to fund the project, and in July 2016, we published Sexy Technical Communication online with a CC-BY attribution license.

Publication Date

7-2019

Keywords

technical communication, writing, technical reports, business plans, handbooks, memos, ethics, documentation design, guidelines, logic, usability testing, collaborative writing, technical editing, html

Disciplines

Technical and Professional Writing

Comments

For a further breakdown of the chapters (chapters 2, 4 and 5 have multiple parts combined here), please visit https://digitalcommonskennesaw.edu/opentc.