Textbooks versus technology: Teaching professional writing to the next generation of technical communicators

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 234-242

  Jenson, Jill D ^a   Morrison, Dorothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers and higher education; Teaching technical writing; Technical communication; Technology enhanced instruction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEACHING; TEXT PROCESSING;

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATORS;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 0035586110     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.968106     Document Type: Article

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