What Do the Competitions Consider Technical Communication?
STC generally does not place restrictions on the content of materials submitted to its technical communication competitions, provided the entry meets the criteria for the specific category. STC also trusts the judgment of local competition committees and judges in making decisions about whether a particular entry is acceptable. However, competition committees and judges might have questions about whether an entry qualifies as “technical” communication. Technical communication (and this encompasses scientific and medical communication as well) has come to mean two quite different things.
