About BTL

Between the Lines (BTL) is the Southwestern Ohio (SWO) community newsletter for Society of Technical Communication (STC) members.

The Society’s mission is “creating and supporting a forum for communities of practice in the profession of technical communication.”  BTL supports that mission by promoting communication, providing relevant information, and encouraging professional development  for techcomm practitioners in our geographic area.

Publication Schedule

This year’s edition of BTL will be published periodically from October 2009  through June 2010.

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Copyright Policies

Writers for BTL hold their own copyrights. 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, but with proper attribution. When you submit an article, please let us know if it has run elsewhere, and if it has been submitted for consideration to other publications.

Submission Guidelines

BTL publishes articles about technical communication, STC and STC-SWO member activities, and any technology- or communciation-related topics that may be of interest to readers in our chapter.

Please submit articles electronically, preferably in plain text format. All first-time

BTL contributors should also submit a head shot (in jpeg format) and a two- or three-sentence bio for use in a byline window.

We look forward to reading your submission!