Be a Judge!

Are you interested in evaluating quality technical communication? Are you an experienced technical communicator? Do you have 10 hours (spread over approximately a month) to volunteer your time to your local chapter? Consider volunteering to judge in the STC-TC annual competition.

It is no secret that the STC competitions remain the Society's premier professional development opportunity. Members and the community are invited to submit their best work for evaluation and possible awards. Judges receives entries and training in objective evaluation criteria. It is each judge's responsibility to evaluate one to three entries objectively and according to the criteria, communicate with the other judges on his or her team to reach a consensus, and complete all judging activity by agreed-upon dates.

We are currently seeking volunteer judges for the STC professional technical communication competition.

This year we are exchanging with STC Southern California. (Some chapters exchange entries with other chapters for judging. This practice improves the quality of judging and avoids conflict of interest within the chapter.)

Judging Forms

Use these judging forms to evaluate your entries. Please save to your local drive and create a unique file for each entry. Check with your judge lead or the competition manager if you have any questions.

Informational Judging form

Instructional Judging form

Promotional Judging form

User Support Judging form

Judge Training

We host a workshop to help our judges learn how to give appropriate and valuable feedback. You will meet your judging team and pick up the entries.

Saturday, November 6, 2010; 11:00am - 1:00pm

Location: TIES; Larpenteur Room

Consensus Judging

Teams get together to agree on ratings/awards and drop off judged entries.

Please return evaluation forms electronically via email.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Location: TBD

Contact Pat Overbo for more information or to volunteer to judge.