The First Weeklong Technical Writers’ Institute and Its Impact

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Beteiligte: Whitburn, Merrill D.
In: Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 23, 2009, 4, S. 428-447
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Umfang: 428-447
ISSN: 1050-6519
1552-4574
DOI: 10.1177/1050651909338801
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> Rensselaer’s Technical Writers’ Institute, the first program of its kind, had a profound impact on technical communication. It enabled technical communicators without formal education in the field to gain important knowledge, provided a forum for communicators from different industries to meet in order to solve mutual problems, played a key role in defining the field and its needs, encouraged recruitment (including the hiring of more women), promoted professional societies and formal degree programs, and seriously affected industry training programs by enabling them to use institute teaching materials. Knowledge gained through the Technical Writers’ Institute enabled Rensselaer to develop many other innovations. </jats:p>