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The future of technical communication.(EDITORIAL)
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Technical Communication
- Article date:
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August 1, 2005
- Author:
- Hayhoe, George F.
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Are the glory days of technical communication all behind us? Can we expect the future to offer only a faint echo of our past? Our profession has certainly had its share of misfortune in the early years of this decade. I'm optimistic about the future, but it will require us to respond to challenges more daunting than any we've confronted before.
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Although it had existed for thousands of years as an activity, technical communication got its start as a profession in the years after World War II when defense and aerospace contractors in the U.S. and the U.K. were required to produce large numbers of ...