Needs Assessment for Communication System Design

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Apr 1976

Needs Assessment for Communication System Design

Charles R. Stratton

Abstract

System design for communication packages involves assessing communication needs and designing a set of communication vehicles to meet these needs. This article, which focuses on the first of these two steps, outlines three categories of data that are important to communication system design and proposes a system for gathering and correlating the data in these three categories. The tangible product of this gathering and correlating is a three-dimensional needs assessment matrix, which is used as part of the input for the actual design of the communication system. A later article will deal with the communication system design itself.

Journal: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published: 1976-04-01
DOI: 10.2190/fcbr-7xqw-j7ln-vnhp
Topics: multimodality

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