About Rough Draft

Rough Draft is the official newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication, Phoenix Chapter community. The newsletter provides news about chapter events, members, and publishes members' opinions about technical communication topics.

Newsletter Staff

Karen L. Zorn, Managing Editor
Clare Turner, Editor In Chief
Gloria McConnell, Contributing Editor
Linda Shacklock, Contributing Editor
Chanda Child, Jane Rossignol, and Deb Paulsen, Reviewers

Submitting Content

We invite readers to submit articles, columns, photos, and other material on subjects of interest to chapter and Society members. Deadlines for submissions are as follows:

 January, 2006  December 10, 2005
February, 2006 January 10, 2006
March, 2006 February 10, 2006
April, 2006 March 10, 2006
May, 2006 April 10, 2006
June, 2006 May 10, 2006
July, 2006 June 10, 2006

We accept articles submitted as e-mail, HTML, or files in Microsoft Word® or FrameMaker® format. We prefer GIF or JPEG graphics. Please include your e-mail address and your phone number. If you wish to send material by fax, first call the Managing Editor, Karen Zorn, at 408-354-0537.

The Rough Draft staff reserves the right to edit articles for clarity and length and to reject submissions judged unfit for publication. We try to review substantive editing of feature articles with the author before publication. Our style guide is Words Into Type.

Newsletter Mailing Address

U.S. Mail:  Karen L. Zorn, Managing Editor, 8515 E. Milagro Ave., Mesa, AZ 85209-7327
E-Mail:  rough_draft@zorntech.com

Reprinting Articles

By submitting material, you implicitly license this newsletter to use it and other STC publications to reprint it without permission. If you reprint an article from Rough Draft, please credit this newsletter as the source and send the Managing Editor a copy of the reprint or the URL of the Web page where the article was re-published.

Copyrights

Rough Draft design and layout are copyright STC, 2005-2006. Copyrights for all newsletter articles belong to the authors. When you submit an article, please notify the editor if it has been published elsewhere or you plan to submit it to other publications.