The 13th chapter of Solving Problems in Technical Communication (Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber, 2013) asks a solid question: “How Can Technical Communicators Manage Projects?” (page 310). That is definitely something my work team tries to keep a handle on, and we’ve tried several of the methods identified in this chapter. By and large, …
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I focused my last blog post on Activity Theory as presented in Chapter 6 of Solving Problems in Technical Communication (Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber, 2013), and with additional detail from the Technical Communication Body of Knowledge (TCBOK) website (www.tcbok.org). As our professor pointed out in feedback to my last post, Kirk St. Amant …
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As the class dives deeper into technical rhetoric heuristics, we are focusing on Situating the Field. In Chapter 6 of “Solving Problems in Technical Communication” (Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber), tools of technical communication are introduced as components that “shapes both the practice of technical communication and the social interactions that technical documents foster” …
I have been involved with technical writing for almost ten years, both as an external consultant and as internal staff. I completely agree with the idea that change is the only constant in this field: where Microsoft products were the tool of choice, now we also have Google applications; where we used to work on …
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