From the Moon to the Microchip: Fifty Years of Technical Communication

Author: Durack, Katherine T.

Source: Technical Communication, Volume 50, Number 4, November 2003 , pp. 571-584(14)

Publisher: Society for Technical Communication

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Abstract:

This article explores technologies and technical writing as discussed over the past 50 years in STC's journal, Technical communication. It describes how computer technologies were initially applied to gain efficiency with technical publication production processes such as typing and typesetting manuscripts and notes that today's single-sourcing and content-management approaches shift efficiency goals from the production to the creation of texts. The author concludes that the most powerful technology technical communicators use is the technology of text itself.

Document Type: Research article

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