Open Technical Communication

by Tiffani TijerinaTamara PowellJonathan ArnettMonique LoganCassandra Race
Contributors: David McMurreySteve MillerCherie MillerMegan GibbsJennifer NguyenJames MonroeLance Linimon

Open Technical Communication is a freely available, open sourced technical communication textbook developed under a Round 3 Textbook Transformation Grant and updated through several follow-up grants in later rounds of grants offered by Affordable Learning Georgia. It is a remix of the open-sourced Online Technical Writing textbook by David McMurrey, and it has been known under its original title, Sexy Technical Communication as well as its current title: Open Technical Communication.

The resources attached to this textbook are collaboratively created by the original group of authors as well as a collection of technical communication faculty and student assistants at Kennesaw State University.

This textbook is available as a print version through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing at-cost with no profits to the authors.

Original publication: 2016
Most recent major update: 2020

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Open Technical Communication is the 2022 winner of the OE Global Award for Excellence in the Open Reuse/Remix/Adaptation category. Check out the award page!

Programmatic Perspectives recently published our peer-reviewed article on our scaled-up adoption of Open Technical Communication, titled "Perspectives from a Departmental Adoption of an Open Technical Communication Textbook". Check out the article!

If you're using Open TC in your course and/or have created a remixed version of it, we would love to know! Connect with us by emailing or Tweeting Tiffani at reardont@outlook.com or @tiffktijerina!

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Metadata

  • edition
    4
  • original publisher
    Kennesaw State University
  • original publisher place
    Kennesaw, GA
  • original title
    Sexy Technical Communication
  • publisher
    Affordable Learning Georgia
  • publisher place
    Athens, GA
  • rights holder
    Tiffani Tijerina, Tamara Powell, Jonathan Arnett, Monique Logan, and Cassandra Race