IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Mar 2022

The Role of Technical Communicators in Confronting Injustice—<i>Everywhere</i>

Godwin Y. Agboka University of Houston - Downtown ; Isidore K. Dorpenyo

Abstract

As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., observed, Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. [1, para. 4]

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
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2022-03-01
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10.1109/tpc.2021.3133151
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