Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2022

Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Public Policy Issues in Technical and Professional Communication

Miriam F. Williams

Abstract

The author proposes Policy, Roles, Sites (PRS), a conceptual model to help technical communicators analyze high-stakes, long-debated public policy issues and reveal ways that technical and professional communication informs public policy development and implementation. The author demonstrates how the PRS model can be used to examine complex public policy issues from race and policing to gun rights and gun control, as well as policy issues that intersect these seemingly disparate issues.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2022-01-02
DOI
10.1080/10572252.2021.1963487
Open Access
Closed
Topics
professional writing

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