CPTSC 2001: Managing Change and Growth in Technical and Scientific Communication. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (28th, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 11-13, 2001).

This proceedings presents 43 papers delivered at the 2001 annual meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). Papers in the proceedings include the following: "Act IV: On Being Less Invisible" (Bill Karis); "Building a Community of Professional Communicators by Mapping Needs and Assets" (Stuart Blythe); "Designing Institutional Space to Bridge Institutional Devices" (Jim Porter); "Managing the Growth of Service Learning" (Summer Smith); "Collaborative Invention Among Experts in an Interdisciplinary Context" (John Gooch); "Dealing with Increasing Tool Diversity and Student Need to Know Tools in the Writing Service Course" (Heather Sehmel); "How the Web Is Changing the Role of the Service Course" (Dan Riordan); "Managing the Conundrum: Doing an Effective Job Teaching Those Packaged Web Design Courses to Students Who Just Want to Do the 'Fun Stuff'" (Elizabeth R. Pass); "Traditional Writing Instruction and the Technical Communication Curriculum" (Tim Hadley); "Reconsidering the Doctor of Arts Degree" (Tim Fountaine); "Issues in Creating a New Ph.D." (Paul M. Dubrowski); "United We Stand, Divided We Fall?" (Ann M. Blakeslee); "Is There an Alternative Master's Program" (Nancy Allen); "Rumors of Change" (Jennie Dautermann, et al); "A Framework for Developing Research-Based Curricula in Professional Writing Programs" (Graham Smart, Nicole Brown); "Planning, Delivering, and Assessing Communication Modules in an Engineering Enterprise Program" (Dale L. Sullivan); "It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times" (Carole Yee); "First Generation Ph.D.s in Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication" (Kelli Cargile Cook, Charlotte Thralls); "Scaling the Walls of the Tower" (Robin Breault, Michelle F. Eble); "Do We Know Who We Are and Where We Belong?" (Alexander Friedlander); "Independence from English" (Alice Philbin); "Portrait of a Maturing Department" (Barbara L'Eplattenier, et al); "Undergraduate Technical Communications Programs" (Nancy M. O'Rourke); "Visual Thinking in the Technical Communication Curriculum" (Eva R. Brumberger); "Graphics, Design and Technical Communication" (Kevin LaGrandeur); "Disciplinary Boundaries" (Carol M. Barnum); "Program/Professional Management/Identity" (W.J. Williamson); "Beyond the Glitz and Grandstanding" (Brendan Faber) Faber); "Supporting Success" (Margaret Hundleby, Helen Correll); "Integrating Technical Communications in an Arts and Humanities Setting" (Catherine Latterell); "A Networked Approach to Program Growth" (Deborah C. Andrews, Rebecca B. Worley); "The Place of Communication in Technical Writing Programs" (Tracy Bridgeford, James M. Dubinsky); "Professional and Technical Communication" (Pete Praetorius); "Datacloud" (Johndan Johnson-Eilola); "Sustainable Practices in Distance Education" (Stuart Selber); "Providing a Backbone for an Online Master's Program in Technical Communications" (Nancy W. Coppola); "From Technical Writing to Content Development" (Saul Carliner); "Some Ideas About Producing Online Modules" (David Morgan); "International Technical Communication Programs and Global Ethics" (Gerald Savage); "Legal Communication in Technical Communication Programs" (James F. Stratman); "International Technical Communications and Today's Technologies" (Teresa Mulvihill); "Should Academic Programs in Technical Communication Try to Strengthen the Bond Between Academia and Industry?" (Susan Feinberg); "Don't Manage Change: Make It!" (Christine Abbot, Phillip Eubanks). (NKA)