Title :
Communicating to the world: technical communication directions for the 1990s
Author :
Corbin, Nancy C.
Author_Institution :
IBM Corp., Manassas, VA, USA
Abstract :
The trend in business today is to place publishing tools at the disposal of the engineers, scientists, programmers, and other technical professionals. Providing technical professionals with online publishing tools shortens and simplifies publication cycles. It is argued that translating desktop publishing verbatim could be catastrophic if engineering and scientific professionals circumvent the technical communicators and rely solely on publishing systems to produce documents. The author reemphasizes the team approach required for developing quality documentation
Keywords :
desktop publishing; technical presentation; 1990s; desktop publishing; engineers; online publishing tools; programmers; publication cycles; quality documentation; scientists; team approach; technical communication; technical professionals; Art; Graphics; Layout; Libraries; Power engineering and energy; Process control; Professional communication; Publishing; Spine; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 1989. IPCC '89. 'Communicating to the World.', International
Conference_Location :
Garden City, NY
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.1989.102136
