Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Apr 1978

It is Easy to Communicate Electronically; It is Hard to Communicate Electronics

Thomas M. Sawyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Abstract

Electronic systems are difficult to describe and explain because: 1) electronic systems involve an unusual layering of several different languages, 2) electricity itself is invisible, and may be indefinable, 3) developments in electronics are occurring so rapidly that few people understand its history, and 4) electricity or electronics is impossible to dramatize and make human.

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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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1978-04-01
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10.2190/twgb-2lh7-a50b-7amp
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