Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 1993

Collaboration in technical communication: A research continuum

Rebecca E. Burnett Iowa State University ; Ann Hill Duin University of Minnesota

Abstract

Although collaboration in technical communication is not a recent phenomenon, the attention it is receiving is new. This recent attention has generated an increasing number of well‐designed and provocative studies that are concerned with collaboration in technical communication contexts as well as with the processes of collaboratively conceptualizing, creating, and producing technical texts. Much of this research, which is forcing a reexamination of theories that affect the pedagogy and practice of collaboration, draws on a broad interdisciplinary foundation and utilizes an array of multi‐methodological approaches, both quantitative and qualitative.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
1993-01-01
DOI
10.1080/10572259309364520
Open Access
Closed
Topics
technical communication

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