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Designing communication: considering the dynamics of the discipline

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Ashley Williams,

Mary MooreAuthors Info & Claims

SIGDOC '06: Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

Pages 59 - 63

https://doi.org/10.1145/1166324.1166338

Published: 18 October 2006 Publication History

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Over the past ten years, technical communicators-theorists and practitioners alike-have been acknowledging change and growth in the field. For example, what once was considered merely writing about technical subjects or objects now encompasses writing the technology itself, in that we are designing complex systems to facilitate the work we do. As the technical communication discipline grows, we report on select trends in the SIGDOC proceedings in recent years to examine the widening of boundaries of the discipline. By doing so, we aim to provide context and situation for the ever-changing role of the technical communicator

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SIGDOC '06: Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

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DOI:10.1145/1166324

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