Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Created over two decades ago to meet the growing demand for research and analysis in this expanding field, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication provides you with information you can use today. The journal covers topics of fundamental interest and key issues, such as managerial communication, ethics of business communication, technical communication practice and pedagogy, intercultural communication, and visual design in business and technical communication.
A valuable resource for educators, researchers, scholars, managers, technicians and practitioners, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication offers you a wide range of scholarship that probes current problems and methods. It focuses on article-length studies that present the latest research in business and technical communication. However, it also includes Approaches and Practices articles. These short articles list instructional tips and industrial how-tos. It includes Book and Software Reviews that critically examine the book and software market. Sometimes, it includes Commentaries, which are opinion pieces address issues of importance to the profession, and Comments and Responses, which are exchanges between readers and authors add insight to recent work.
Articles in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication have frequently won professional awards, such as the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) award presented nationally for excellence in publications in technical and scientific communication. Most recently, “The Ethics of Delivering Bad News: Evaluating Impression Management Strategies in Corporate Financial Reporting” by Dr. Emily DeJeu (Carnegie Mellon University) won the Association for Business Communication’s 2022 award for distinguished publication, and "Decolonizing the Color-Line: A Topological Analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Infographics for the 1900 Paris Exposition" by Lynda C. Olman and “Curricular Efforts in Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn” by Godwin Y. Agboka and Isidore K. Dorpenyo have won CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards.
JBTC is a refereed, JCR™ ranked journal that provides a forum for research and scholarly discussion of business communication, technical communication, and scientific communication. As such, JBTC offers opportunities for bridging dichotomies that have traditionally existed in professional communication journals between business and technical communication and between industrial and academic audiences.
Because JBTC is designed to disseminate knowledge that can lead to improved communication practices in both academe and industry, the journal favors research that will inform professional communicators in both sectors. But articles addressing one sector or the other will also be considered. Submissions may address such topics as best practices in communication; innovative instruction in business and technical communication; qualitative and quantitative research in governmental, business, industrial, nonprofit or academic settings; and theoretical approaches to business and technical communication. While published manuscripts may represent any one of a wide range of approaches and methodologies, treatment should meet the highest standards for scholarship.
| Jo Mackiewicz | Iowa State University, USA |
| Chris Lam | University of North Texas, USA |
| Lori Peterson | Iowa State University, USA |
| Nancy Roundy Blyler, founding coeditor 1987-1989 | Iowa State University, USA |
| Charlotte Thralls, founding coeditor 1987-1989 | Founding Coeditor 1987-1989 |
| Thomas Kent, editor 1990-1994 | Western Michigan University, USA |
| Rebecca E. Burnett, editor 1998-2002 | Iowa State University, USA |
| Dorothy A. Winsor, editor 2003-2007 | Iowa State University, USA |
| Charles Kostelnick, editor 1995-1997, 2013-2015, 2019-2020 | Iowa State University, USA |
| David R. Russell, editor 2007-2019 | Iowa State University, USA |
| Godwin Agboka | University of Houston-Downtown, USA |
| Natasha Artemeva | Carleton University, Canada |
| Charles Bazerman | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Davida H. Charney | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Menno De Jong | University of Twente, Netherlands |
| Valerie P. Goby | Zayed University, UAE |
| Magnus Gustafsson | Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| JoAnn Hackos | Comtech Services, Inc., USA |
| Christopher Lam | University of North Texas, USA |
| Lisa Melonçon | University of South Florida, USA |
| Marie Paretti | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA |
| Octavio Pimentel | Texas State University, USA |
| Janice C. Redish | President, Redish and Associates, Inc., USA |
| Stuart A. Selber | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Clay Spinuzzi | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Kirk St. Amant | Louisiana Tech University, USA |
| Jason Swarts | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Miriam Williams | Texas State University, USA |
| Joanna Wolfe | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Han Yu | Kansas State University, USA |
| Cristina Zucchermaglio | Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy |
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