Daniel Beck has won the 2008 STC Technical Editing SIG Undergraduate Scholarship. Daniel is a student at the University of Central Florida in the English Department, majoring in English Technical Communication. Since August 2006 he has held a part-time position as an Instructional Technology Assistant at UCF’s Course Development and Web Services. As part of his duties and also for course credit, he edited and revised a large documentation set. As part of that effort he pulled “together different documents, with different page designs, tones, and styles, into a unified collection that spoke with a single voice to a varied and complex audience.” Daniel also worked as an intern for Google, Inc., where he helped revise and edit existing documentation for the Google Desktop team. Congratulations, Daniel!

Michelle Schoenecker has won the 2008 STC Technical Editing Graduate Scholarship. Michelle is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the English Department, majoring in Professional Writing. In March 2007, she accepted a position as a student researcher and editor for Dr. Gerald Alred to help develop the 2009 editions of his technical writing reference books, The Handbook of Technical Writing and The Business Writer’s Handbook. Her responsibilities involved improving current entries, developing new entries for each handbook, and editing current entries for relevance to the audience as well as for timeliness, meaning, and usage. She also assessed reviewers’ comments to determine which entries were the most used, least used, and most in need of improvement. Congratulations, Michelle!

Each scholarship recipient was awarded $2,000.00 from the STC Technical Editing SIG. Applicants were judged on their work experience, career goals, significant achievements, research project, resume quality, letters of recommendation, and grade point average.

The STC Technical Editing SIG will also be awarding an undergraduate and a graduate scholarship in 2009.