Research Strategies in Technical Communication
Published on 28. September 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-471-11994-4 (ISBN)
Description
This overview of technical communication has been designed to benefit technical writers and editors, researchers specializing in technical documents and students who study technical communication. It describes how research efforts affect all areas of technical communications.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
709 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-11994-4 (9780471119944)
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Content
Introduction to Research; Idea Generation as You Begin Your Research; Planning Research: Documentation Plans; Ethics; Computerized Information Retrieval from Libraries; Computerized Secondary Sources of Information; Personal Experience and Knowledge; Informational Interviews; Letters of Inquiry; Questionnaires and Surveys; Empirical Experimentation; Evaluation of Sources; Statistics and Measurements; Usability Testing and Validation; Query Letters, Proposal Letters and Prospects; Abstracts; Bibliographies and the Documentation of Sources; Conducting Additional Research.