IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Mar 1990

Preparing to write the document: a worksheet for situational analysis in the workplace

R.J. Nelson

Abstract

The author presents a worksheet which helps authors facilitate writing projects by identifying important preliminary considerations, the potential readers of the document, relationships of the writer to the audience and the document, the purpose of the document, and strategies to achieve that purpose. Each of these categories is discussed in detail, in terms of the entries to be made on the form.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
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1990-03-01
DOI
10.1109/47.49065
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