Journal of Business and Technical Communication Jan 1995

Survival Skills for Communicators within Organizations

EMILY SOPENSKY ; LAURIE MODREY

Abstract

Formal classroom instruction and literature in the field never replace the learning that occurs from actual experience in the workplace. Recognizing this, the authors—two senior technical communicators—identify several typical, but not predictable, organizational problems that involve technical communicators and present them in a how-to, anecdotal fashion.

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Journal of Business and Technical Communication
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1995-01-01
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10.1177/1050651995009001006
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