ABSTRACT
Business colleges offer management courses, some of which are useful to technical and professional communication students. However, as Anderson notes, such courses often do not deal with issues specific to publications management. Students are responsible for selecting an appropriate organization and securing written permission from the manager of the unit they study. Class discussions the first week or two of the semester help students settle on appropriate organizations. Students have the option of writing a review essay or preparing an annotated bibliography prefaced with an appropriate introduction. Project management is an important topic for publications managers. Publications staff who are not called managers or who have no supervisory responsibilities may find themselves supervising projects, from brochures to entire libraries of documentation. Students leave the course with a resource file, problem solving skills, and information about many of the issues they will face as writers, editors, and publications managers.
