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Renegotiating with technology: training towards more sustainable technical communication.(APPLIED THEORY)
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Technical Communication
- Article date:
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August 1, 2005
- Author:
- Clark, Dave; Andersen, Rebekka
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SUMMARY
* Suggests that one reason why we are undervalued by those in related fields is our field's approach to technology training
* Argues that new approaches will broaden our potential and ultimately create a more sustainable profession
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INTRODUCTION
In the fall of 2004, both of us participated in a graduate-level independent study course on knowledge management. A total of three of us met weekly in a coffee shop near campus to work through issues from our readings, critique each other's writing, and debug coding problems from our service-learning project. We learned, after gathering all the knowledge management works that we could find, that ...