STC@50
And the Answer is....
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Poll #40, posted on the Boston Chapter Web site at http://www.stc-boston.org,
asks about the history of the name of the Boston Chapter's newsletter. Here is some
background:
The original name of the Boston Chapter newsletter was The Technical Writing
Review, first published in late 1953. In 1960, the Society of Technical Writers,
the Association of Technical Writers and Editors, and the Technical Publishing Society
merged to form the Society of Technical Writers and Publishers (STWP), and the newsletter
briefly became the Bulletin of the Boston Chapter STWP. In November 1960,
it was renamed The Boston Blue Pencil, owing to editors' use of nonreproducible
blue pencils to mark up writers' copy. In 1983, with the advent of "real" word processing
and graphical user interfaces (as opposed to screen editors and markup languages),
the name changed again, to the Boston Broadside.
For more information about the history of the Boston Chapter, see "Boston: A Cradle
of Liberty...and Technical Information," at http://www.stc-boston.org/broadside/09_2002/v60_no1_krupp.shtml.
Check upcoming Web polls for more Broadside trivia questions before the publication
of each issue of the Boston Broadside.
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