Professional bodies
	The UK’s association is the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC), which is itself a member of the European umbrella organisation TCeurope. Australia Australian Society for Technical Communication (ASTC) New South Wales www.astcnsw.org.au Victoria www.astcvic.org.au Canada Société Québécoise de la Rédaction Professionnelle (SQRP) www.sqrp.org Europe TCeurope www.tceurope.org France Conseil des Rédacteurs Techniques (CRT) www.chez.com/crt Germany Gesellschaft für technische Kommunikation (tekom) www.tekom.de Netherlands Studiekring voor Technische Informatie and Kommunikatie (STIC) www.stic.nl New Zealand Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand www.tcanz.org.nz Sweden Föreningen Teknisk Information (FTI) www.teknikinformatoren.se Switzerland TECOM Schweiz www.tecom.ch United Kingdom Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) www.istc.org.uk United States Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group for Documentation (ACM/SIGDOC) www.acm.org/sigdoc Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) www.attw.org/ATTWhome.asp Professional Communication Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE/PCS) www.ieeepcs.org Society for Technical Communication (STC) www.stc.org