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Technical writing as textual coordination: an argument for the value of writers' skill with information technology.(APPLIED RESEARCH)
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Technical Communication
- Article date:
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August 1, 2005
- Author:
- Slattery, Shaun
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SUMMARY
* Argues that skill with information technologies is a core competency of technical communication
* Concludes that writers learn and implement many other core competencies through information technologies
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INTRODUCTION
In attempting to articulate the core competencies of technical communication, our field has long debated the importance of skill with the tools of our trade. Instruction in the tools of technical communication have been alternatively embraced and shunned. Gurak and Duin (2004) lamented our field's proclivity for "evangelizing about the power of the Internet and digital technologies on the one hand or criticizing and ...