Title :
Collaborative writing on the job: Secrets your writing teachers never taught you
Author :
Hayhoe, George F.
Author_Institution :
Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC, USA
Abstract :
Academic communication courses cannot continue to ignore the collaborative nature of real-world professional communication. With a little imagination, course assignments can be redesigned so that students no longer work in isolation and their writing is evaluated based on its effect on the target audience rather than on its "artistic" qualities
Keywords :
technical presentation; collaborative writing; communication courses; professional communication; writing; Art; Business communication; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Education; Information systems; Professional communication; Rivers; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 1993. IPCC 93 Proceedings. 'The New Face of Technical Communication: People, Processes, Products'
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.1993.593889
