Visualizing writing activity as knowledge work: Challenges & opportunities

ACM SIGDOC 2006 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 70-77

  Hart Davidson, William ^a   Spinuzzi, Clay ^b   Zachry, Mark ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

communicative event models; genre ecologies; qualitative research; visualization; writing

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED WORK; EVENT MODEL; GENRE ECOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE WORK; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WRITING ACTIVITIES; WRITING PROCESS;

COMMUNICATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; TECHNICAL WRITING;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84889561976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1166324.1166341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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