Coordinating Distributed Memory

Kristin Marie Bivens Harold Washington College ; Kelli Cargile Cook Texas Tech University

Abstract

This case study of an environmental engineer’s proposal-writing process reveals how the engineer (Beatrice) reifies, archives, and accesses her distributed memory across physical and digital sources in order to write proposals. Based on the authors’ observations of Beatrice’s proposal-writing process and their interviews with her, they arrived at three key conclusions: Beatrice distributes her memory across multiple physical and digital sources, the (spreadsheet) product calculator helps Beatrice to manage her cognitive load and relieve her working memory, and the product calculator allows Beatrice to reassemble her distributed memory and coordinate her cognition.

Journal
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published
2018-07-01
DOI
10.1177/1050651918762028
Open Access
Closed
Topics

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (2)

  1. Technical Communication Quarterly
  2. Written Communication

Cites in this index (18)

  1. Technical Communication Quarterly
  2. Written Communication
  3. Technical Communication Quarterly
  4. Technical Communication Quarterly
  5. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Show all 18 →
  1. Technical Communication Quarterly
  2. Technical Communication Quarterly
  3. Research in the Teaching of English
  4. Technical Communication Quarterly
  5. Written Communication
  6. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  7. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  8. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  9. Written Communication
  10. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  11. Technical Communication Quarterly
  12. Technical Communication Quarterly
  13. Written Communication
Also cites 13 works outside this index ↓
  1. 10.4324/9781410609526
  2. 10.4324/9781315303758-8
  3. 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015424.001.0001
  4. 10.2307/356600
  5. 10.1145/353485.353487
  6. 10.7551/mitpress/1881.001.0001
  7. 10.2190/SGC
  8. A handlist of rhetorical terms
  9. 10.17239/jowr-2014.05.03.3
  10. 10.1145/227614.227615
  11. 10.1057/9780230625143
  12. 10.2307/357405
  13. 10.2307/357883
CrossRef global citation count: 3 View in citation network →