Technical and Scientific Writing/Editing
Software Documentation
Journalistic Careers
Publishing Industry Careers
Professional Documentation/Editing
Public Relations Editing/Writing
Web Development (content editors, interface designers, etc)
Other Professional Writing Opportunities

Begin searching for information about these careers on the web. You might start by looking at the professional organizations for a particular area or look through job ads that might help narrow your search for information.

A Few Professional Associations of Interest—
American Society of Newspaper Editors http://www.asne.org/index.cfm
American Society of Magazine Editors http://asme.magazine.org/
Association of American Publishers http://www.publishers.org/
Association for Information Systems http://www.aisnet.org/
Association of Internet Professionals http://www.association.org/
Association of Learned Professional Society Publishers http://www.alpsp.org/default.htm
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) http://www.acm.org/
Association for Business Communication http://www.theabc.org/
Association for Teachers of Technical Writing http://english.ttu.edu/~attw/
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication http://www.cptsc.org/
International Association of Business Communicators http://www.iabc.com/index.htm
National Writers Union http://www.nwu.org/
Society for Technical Communication http://www.stc-va.org/

Some of the academic journals in professional writing—
Business Communication Quarterly
Communication Monographs
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Journal of Applied Communication
Journal of Business Communication
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Management Communication Quarterly
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Technical Communication Quarterly
Technical Communication

For more jobs and career listings, see the Professional Writing Program’s Job Search Resources: http://pw.english.purdue.edu/resources/employment.shtml

Purdue's listing of Professional writing organizations: http://pw.english.purdue.edu/resources/professional.shtml

Another resource is the Tech Comm Library at Eserver http://tc.eserver.org/

Try to find at least one specific area/career that you find intriguing during your search. For the last 15 minutes of class, we will go around the room and share some information about the career you have initially found interesting (don’t worry—you can change your mind as you do more research).

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