Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2000

Shaping local HIV/AIDS services policy through activist research: The problem of client involvement

Jeffrey T. Grabill Georgia State University

Abstract

This article argues that professional writing researchers can help shape public policy by understanding policy making as a function of institutionalized rhetorical processes and by using an activist research stance to help generate the knowledge necessary to intervene. My goal is to argue for what activist technical writing research might look like, lay out an understanding of institutions that is helpful for influencing public policy, and illustrate the promises and the problems of both positions by using the case of a study focused on local HIV/AIDS policy making. According to this way of thinking, professional writing researchers can impact policy by helping change the processes by which policy gets made.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2000-01-01
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10.1080/10572250009364684
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