About Us
Our mission at SciCom SIG
The mission statement is currently undergoing revision by the Rechartering Team. We expect to have the new statement reviewed and approved by our membership in 2009. Until then, here’s the “old” statement:
The Scientific Communication Special Interest group (SciCom SIG) is dedicated to the support of technical communicators who regularly deal with the specialized handling and delivery of scientific information. This support is offered by the SciCom SIG in a variety of ways. The main focus areas of our group are listed below.
The mission of the Scientific Communication Special Interest Group (SIG) spans several main areas of emphasis:
- Learning how to improve our communication of scientific information to specialist audiences (scientists), decision-makers (government, managers, and others), and the public.
- Exploring the nature of scientific communication, identifying its unique challenges, and finding solutions to those challenges.
- Understanding the importance of science to society, and communicating that importance to various audiences in different contexts.
- Sharing tips and tricks for resolving typical communications problems that arise in the sciences.
- Teaching more typical STC communicators (people who most commonly document computer or software applications) how they can benefit from what we’ve learned as “best practices” in the sciences.
- Improving our own communication skills by learning from the “best practices” of other communicators (e.g., those used in computer documentation).
