Kostelnick Receives International Award

Charles Kostelnick was awarded the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication by the Society for Technical Communication.   The Jay R. Gould Award honors the distinguished teaching career of Professor Gould. Professor Gould's academic mentorship of technical communication students guided many men and women into the profession. The award honors excellence in teaching that becomes true academic mentorship: the personal and professional concern that the best teachers extend to their students beyond the demands of the classroom and beyond even graduation as former students continue to grow throughout their professional careers.

 Kostelnick’s citation reads: 

 For your leading of students to new understandings of the role of visuals in communication, and your application of researched principles to classroom learning. You have changed the way we teach visuals in the classroom and how they are understood in the workplace.

Biographical Information

Charles Kostelnick is a professor in the English department at Iowa State University, where he has taught business and technical communication, as well as a graduate and an undergraduate course in visual communication in professional writing. He is the coauthor (with David Roberts) of Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions and coauthor of Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators. A former editor of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, he has been published in a variety of journals and has made presentations at numerous conferences. Much of his work has focused on visual communication in professional writing.

About the Society for Technical Communication (STC)

 Technical communication is the process of conveying complex information in a way people can understand and use. The Society for Technical Communication is the largest association of technical communicators in the world, comprised of members on six continents throughout its 130 chapters and 22 Special Interest Groups. STC members work in every industry, producing instructional manuals, online help, multimedia, training resources, and other forms of technical communication. For more information, visit www.stc.org

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