Michael J. Albers
East Carolina University
Spring 2009

David Beard
University of Minnesota Duluth
Fall 2009

Those of us who work primarily in the United States may not be familiar with the study and teaching of writing in the institutional and scholarly traditions north of the border within the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW).  Its May 2009 meeting in Ottawa, Canada, at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences provided several insights about the perspectives that this group represents. 

Paul Dombrowski
University of Central Florida
Spring 2011

Sandy Dorley
Conestoga College
Spring 2011

Many of us teach what has become known as the service course in technical writing.  Usually offered as a second-level writing course (after the obligatory essay/academic writing course in most colleges and universities), it contains students from many different disciplines. Often, their writing process is hit-and-miss at best.

Call for Manuscripts
Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Programmatic Perspectives is a semiannual peer-reviewed journal of the CPTSC, the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. The inaugural issue was published on March 1, 2009, at http://www.cptsc.org/pp/.

The editors solicit full articles, opinion pieces, and program showcases. We also seek reviews of books and other media of potential interest to technical communication program administrators.