User:StaceyHamilton/BlogEntry: 2008 December 12 11:10:38 EST
From sasCommunity
Guest blogger Mary Beth Steinbach writes:
In March 2008, SAS published a book written by our own John R. Kohl. This news, in and of itself, is not out of the ordinary. After all, SAS has been publishing books for many years. (You might recognize the name of the Books By Users program, which is now known as SAS Press.) The books that we publish have typically been written by authors from the community of SAS software users, some of whom are SAS employees but most of whom work outside of SAS and are experts in various fields.
While John is certainly an expert in his field, his field is not SAS software. He has worked at SAS as a technical writer, technical editor, and linguistic engineer since 1992. For the past several years, John has devoted his time to terminology issues and to refining the Global English guidelines. John’s expertise has been a tremendous asset to our company’s commitment to a corporate-wide terminology management program. Given this level of in-house expertise, we were thrilled to work with John to publish his book and share his Global English guidelines with a larger audience. We know his book is a gem, but were thrilled to receive the following notification from the Society for Technical Communication earlier this week:
“I’m pleased to tell you that The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market has won a Distinguished Award in the STC Carolina Technical Publications competition. The judges who evaluated the book were in unanimous agreement about the quality, and were highly impressed with the readability and the numerous examples.
“On December 4, the STC Carolina Chapter met to review the entries that won Distinguished Awards for the Technical Publications, Technical Art, and Online Competitions. The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market was up against four other very fine documents, and the group spent a long time coming to a final decision.
“The vote for the Best of Show Award for the STC Carolina 2008-09 Technical Publications Competition went to The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market.
“Congratulations from the STC Carolina Competitions Committee!”
Betsy Kent Technical Publications Committee Chair
John’s book will be submitted to the STC International Competition in January 2009. You can buy this book from the SAS Publishing bookstore, Amazon, or from a variety of booksellers.
