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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"Technical Communication"”.
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Affective Design In Technical Communication
… art in affective design research and practice to technical communicators and others involved in traditional HCI and usability enterprises. This paper is motivated by the developing technologies and the growing complexity of interaction that demand a more robust notion of HCI that incorporates …
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Usage Error in Technical Communication
College students who seek careers as technical communicators must master technical writing and editing skills to succeed in the workplace. Effective technical communication stems from the communicator's ability to perceive usage errors in documents; therefore, this research study examined students' …
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Homer and the Art of Performative Technical Communication
A historiographic survey of the early history of technical communication may strike as unnecessary, particularly since the earliest history of technical communication begins and ends with the sophists and Aristotle. Though scholars have occasionally referenced archaic literature in their analysis …
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Developing Technical Communication Pedagogy For Nonnative Technical Graduate Students
… writing to nonnative graduate students of technical disciplines in order to give them the skills they need to write papers that they can submit to academic journals and conferences, thereby advancing their careers and gaining recognition for their academic institutions. The work draws on …
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Technical communication in industrial R & D groups : a questionnaire survey
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1985.
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Ethics in Technical Communication: Historical Context for the Human Radiation Experiments
… ethical language and ethical frameworks within technical communication, this dissertation analyzes the history and documentation of the human radiation experiments of the 1940s through the 1970s. Research propositions included clarifying the link between medical documentation and technical …
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Professional and community identity in the field of technical communication in Ireland.
Technical communication is a relatively new occupational field in the Republic of Ireland, which has grown in response to the location of software and hardware companies in the country. Because it is also a new area of academic study, with just one academic programme in technical communication in …
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Wired & dangerous: hacks, hair extensions and other twists on traditional technical communication
… discipline (Miller, 1979; Dombrowski, 1994), technical communication has striven to balance workplace exigencies with attention to the broader rhetorical, social and ethical issues within which technical communication is situated. Recently, this humanistic agenda has expanded from a simple …
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Developing digital literacies: Engaging technical communication at an urban community technology center
This study provides needed insights for technical communication scholars regarding underrepresented users and how they are engaging with technical communication texts and practices as they develop their digital literacies at an urban community technology center (CTC) in the Southeastern United …
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Technical communication in place-making professions: Exploring the network pictures of urban designers
… an overview of how design is discussed in technical communication scholarship. Here, I showcase how most of these discussions regarding research in design have centered on textual documents and also provide a model that bridges the different roles that researchers in technical communication …
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Analyzing the effects of product architecture on technical communication in product development organizations
Effective communication in product development organizations has been identified as a key factor of product development performance. Furthermore, understanding how the development organization manages the knowledge associated with the product architecture is broadly recognized as a critical …
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A Pedagogical Model for Realigning the Priorities in Technical Communication Between Industry and Academia
… attempts to mediate the longstanding gap between technical communication academics and practitioners, the field has yet to become a unified community. This study tracks the history of the field to identify the causes of the breach. The goal of this thesis is to assess technical communication's …
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