About the San Diego Signature

Signature is the newsletter of the San Diego Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to educating and advancing the careers of technical communicators. Newsletters are published monthly during the chapter year (September through June).

STC has more than 25,000 members and 150 chapters nationwide. For more information about the San Diego Chapter, visit our Web site at www.stc-sd.org. Write to us at

STC San Diego
PO Box 501261
San Diego, CA 92150-1261

Article Submission

Signature invites writers to submit articles to be considered for publication. Send your query and request for writer's guidelines to stcsignature@yahoo.com. Submission deadlines are the 1st of the month prior to the publication month. Publication is dependent on space availability.

By submitting an article, you implicitly grant a license to this newsletter to run the article and for other STC publications to reprint it without permission. Copyright is held by the writer. In your cover letter, please let the editor know if this article has run elsewhere and if it has been submitted for consideration to other publications.

Unless otherwise noted, copyrights for all newsletter articles belong to the authors. The design and layout of this newsletter are © San Diego STC, 2005.

Permission to Republish

Material published in Signature may be republished if Signature and the author are credited. After publication, send a printed copy to the editor at the above address. If the publication is electronic, email the newsletter URL or PDF to newsletter@stc-sd.org.