Overall Guidelines

A given entry must

• contain sufficient technical, scientific, medical, or similar content to qualify as technical communication
• have been produced or substantially revised within 24 months preceding September 1, 2008
• have been originally prepared for and accepted for publication by a client, employer, or publisher.

The FTCC reserves the right to reject any entry for any reason. If this occurs, the entry fee is refunded.

Entries must be suitable for public display. Entries that contain classified or proprietary information or that violate copyright laws are not acceptable. It is the responsibility of the submitter, and not of the STC, to determine that entries do not contain classified or proprietary information and that the holder of all copyrights has granted permission for submission of the entry. Neither STC nor anyone associated with the competitions can be held responsible for loss of or damage to an entry.

Materials prepared for STC purposes are not eligible for entry in the FTCC. Examples of these materials include STC Publications and books; articles for Intercom, Tieline, and Technical Communication; and chapter and Special Interest Group (SIG) Web sites, brochures, and newsletters.

Multilingual entries are accepted, but one of the languages must be English. Only the English-language portion of the entry will be judged.

An entry must not have been entered in a previous STC competition and may be entered in only one suite of local or regional competitions.

NOTE: Duplicate entries are disqualified.

Entries submitted to the FTCC cannot be submitted to any other local or regional competition.

However, within a local or regional competition an entry can be entered in multiple areas. For example, a manual can be entered in the FTTC Technical Publications Competition and a corresponding online tutorial can be entered in the FTCC Online Communication Competition. If this is done, the submitter must complete the entry submission process for each competition, including provision of required materials, entry forms, and entry fees.

Within a single category, only one entry from the same contributors and from the same parent organization may be submitted, except when the entries are on significantly different topics. Entries that substantially duplicate other entries are not eligible. This rule does not necessarily eliminate online communication entries about the same product or topic on different hardware platforms.

The submitter must certify that the entry represents the actual work of the contributors named on the Entry Form and that the entry has been cleared for submission. The submitter must also certify that the copyright holder permits the submission of the entry.

NOTE: The submitter receives all official correspondence relating to the entry. The submitter is responsible for all communication with the contributors about the entry and for distributing any awards.)

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