Society for Technical Communication

The Society for Technical Communication (STC) is a professional association dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of technical communication. With membership of more than 6,000 technical communicators, it's the largest organization of its type in North America. The society publishes a quarterly journal and a magazine ten times a year and hosts an annual international conference (STC Technical Communication Summit). STC also provides online education in the form of live Web seminars, multi-week online certificate courses, virtual conferences, recorded seminars, and more. Association News magazine lauded the STC education program as an "incredible e-learning system" that provides "highly credible peer-to-peer learning while minimizing costs."