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Capital equipment: how to get it and manage it.
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Technical Communication
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May 1, 1994
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1994 Society for Technical Communication. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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SUMMARY
A survey of STC members showed that they generally lack the skills required to identify, select, justify, and manage the capital equipment they need. Technical communicators must learn to write capital equipment requests that specify the needed new equipment, show the benefits to the company from buying it, and recommend the way to account for it. To do so, they must learn some business basics and make friends outside their own departments.
Capital equipment is the large, expensive equipment you use to do your job. If my research is accurate, most STC members care deeply about keeping up with technology--to create new communication products, to improve the ...
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