Publications Management: Essays for Professional Communicators -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. COMMUNICATION AND THE MANAGER -- 1. Managing Technical Publications: A Growing and Changing Responsibility -- 2. Designing Noise Audits to Improve Managerial-Employee Communication -- 3. Technical Communication Models That Ensure Productive Meetings -- PART II. MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION -- 4. Comprehending and Aligning Professionals and Publications Organizations -- 5. Culture and Anarchy: What Publications Managers Should Know about Us and Them -- 6. Hiring and Managing Editorial Freelancers -- 7. Managing Internships -- PART III. PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND THE INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT CYCLE -- 8. The Role of the Technical Communicator Within Organizational Information Development Cycles -- 9. Project Management: The Art of Managing Deadlines -- 10. The Project Worksheet for Efficient Writing Management -- 11. Document Standardization: Maintaining Project Harmony -- 12. Estimating Costs for Documentation Projects -- 13. Team Conferences: Full Collaboration in the Report Writing Process -- PART IV. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES -- 14. Managing Publications According to Legal and Ethical Standards -- 15. Rhetoric, Ethical Codes, and the Revival of Ethos in Publications Management -- PART V. PEDAGOGY -- 16. Can We Be Partners? Industry/Corporate Advisory Boards for Academic Technical Communication Programs -- 17. Teaching Technical Communication Majors about Organizational Management -- 18. A Design for a Graduate Seminar in Publications Management -- Contributors -- Index -- Selected titles from Baywood's Technical Communications Series -- Back Cover.