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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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Publications (29)
January 2012
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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
July 2011
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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
What is currently known about the history of the paragraph has relied on the work of the first English and American compositionists, humanists, and philologists of the late nineteenth century. Alexander Bain and his followers defined the requirements for the English paragraph and believed it had not existed prior to the eighteenth century. Their sole focus, on humanist and historical writing, yielded a distorted, if not an incorrect history of the paragraph. This article begins to correct that view, prevalent since 1866, by examining paragraphs of practical works, such as printed how-to books of the early English Renaissance until 1700. The variety and quantity of how-to documents increased with the growth of knowledge, advent of printing, and emergence and expansion of middle-class English readers eager for books written in an accessible, non-Latinate style. When we examine paragraphs from technical books printed as early as 1490, we find paragraphs that exemplify the qualities stipulated by Bain nearly 400 years later. The existence of well defined and formulated paragraphs throughout the English Renaissance and the seventeenth century in a wide variety of technical book-works ignored by literary scholars pursuing the history of English-suggests that the paragraph is clearly indigenous to the English composition, much more so than modern composition theory has acknowledged. This article explores example paragraphs of these first English printed technical works and begins to expand the history of the English paragraph. Further studies of later Middle English paragraphs in incunabula of practical, liturgical, and historical works will likely show the indigenous nature of the paragraph to English composition and allow scholars to see how the formation of the paragraph helped English writers over 500-700 years ago create complete texts.
October 2010
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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
September 2010
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Technical Communication Quarterly
This article discusses the history and development of English agriculture and estate management instructions, 1200–1700, as these shifted from oral to textual forms. Beginning with manuscript treatises that influenced important instruction books printed in the 16th century, the article shows how major agricultural writers developed instructions for a range of users. By the close of the 17th century, agricultural and estate management books exemplified increasingly modern presentation and style.
July 2010
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Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
Research on tractor safety has not focused on user manuals. This study focuses on tractor operator manuals, specifically safety warnings, selected from the files of the Tractor Test facility at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Analysis of many common warnings, based on readability and legibility research, shows that many warnings contain excessive information, confusing visuals and safety icons, poor document design, and illegible typefaces. The result is unreadable warnings that do not communicate quickly and correctly, and discourage readers rather than clarify critical information. Many tractor operator warnings are cluttered, "over-written," and contain information needed to protect the manufacturer rather than to inform operators. What is needed is a careful analysis and revision of many safety warnings with the goal of encouraging operators to read the warnings and follow their message.
January 2010
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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
January 2010
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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
This article studies the history of one of the most critical, unresolved problems in mechanized agriculture: Tractor operators do not read the operation manuals, particularly the safety warnings. The result: sustained death and injury of these operators for well over a century. The article tracks the emergence of warnings in tractor operator manuals found in the archives of the University of Nebraska Tractor Test Museum (1919-2007), describes efforts of manufacturers during this time to alert operators to dangers associated with tractors, and concludes with a summary of current research on tractor safety and the problem that remains unresolved: how to change the culture of farmers who use these implements, critical to agriculture production, to encourage them to read and follow safety practices.
July 2009
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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
March 2009
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Technical Communication Quarterly
This article attempts to summarize the history of ATTW. It focuses on issues that led to the need for an organization devoted to technical writing, and the individuals who were leaders in ATTW, as well as in NCTE and CCCC, whose efforts provided the foundation for the presence of technical writing as a legitimate teaching and research discipline. We draw on existing historical pieces and the contributions provided by many of the first ATTW members to capture the history of ATTW. We describe the major changes in ATTW from 1973–2007 and conclude with our reflections, as well as important questions we believe to be critical to the future of ATTW
Citations (16)
... Business and technical communication subjects are substantiated to be pertinent to research conducted in the social sciences (Reinsch & Reinsch, 1996;Reinsch & Lewis, 1993). Other longitudinal studies continued to show evidence of the relevancy of business and technical communication articles on the main topics of social science research (Moran & Tebeaux, 2011;Moran & Tebeaux, 2012). It appears to take roughly 25--years to know the full impact of a scholarly article. ...
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January 2012
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
... Goody (1977) discovered that of the 508 Ugarit tablets (14 th century) found, two-thirds were lists. And lists, Tebeaux (2010) suggested, were the first written manifestation of instructions -the assumption being that a person would provide an oral elaboration of the printed words. As the culture became more stratified, mobile, and complex, the texts being produced also evolved and new genres emerged including letters, technical manuals, legal documents, and finally, literature. ...
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September 2010
Technical Communication Quarterly
... Researchers studying the history of technical communication must use primary sources, such as the accident report of a historic train wreck, a map of the train's route and a timetable of its stops, interviews with passengers and bystanders, and even the train itself, but researchers must also conduct a thorough literature review and use relevant secondary sources, such as a documentary film or journal articles about the historic train accident or studies of other train wrecks. Beyond these basic working principles, several technical communication scholars have proposed multistep approaches to conducting historical research for either academic publication (Battalio, 2002;Kynell & Seely, 2002;Tebeaux & Killingsworth, 1992) or immediate workplace application (Longo & Fountain, 2013;Shirk, 2000Shirk, /2004. These approaches emphasize the importance of understanding context, such as relevant details about the time period in which a document was created, the organization that created it, and its intended audience. ...
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March 1992
Technical Communication Quarterly
... Although adopting barriers and devices to secure harvesting machine is crucial to reduce risks, the human factor is essential to prevent incorrect use. In [25] reported empirical evidence that operator's manuals are infrequently read, and warnings reported on them are scarcely noticed. This gives the importance of the operator's manual as a source of information for machine safe operation and maintenance [25]. ...
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January 2010
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
... Outra diferença técnica é a oralidade contábil: até meados do século XVIII, a Inglaterra ainda se utilizava das narrativas para registrar as transações comerciais. Com o aparecimento da técnica de escrituração charge/discharge e, depois, com a partida dobrada, desaparece a oralidade (Tebeaux, 2000). Quanto à contabilidade, seja por partidas simples, seja por partida de dupla entrada, é pouco provável que tenha havido diferenças significativas (Mattessich, 2000), porém o certo é que, em todas as suas manifestações representativas dos informes contábeis, ela sempre esteve ao lado do capitalismo. ...
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October 2000
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
... Writing studies began to take visual inscription seriously in the 1990s when (a) key monographs in visual rhetoric appeared and (b) digital technologies defamiliarized the visual and material aspects of writing. The first research article in Written Communication to focus on visual inscription was Tebeaux's (1991) study of Ramus's page design, which she followed up with a pathbreaking 1997 monograph on the visual aspects of Renaissance technical manuals. Other key texts from the decade include Barton and Barton's (1993) Foucaultian analysis of synoptic and analytic technical graphics, Kostelnick's (1994) study of the effects of laser printing on argument and text design, and Thralls's (1991) examination of the effectiveness of training videos in procedural writing pedagogy. ...
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October 1991
Written Communication
... Kültürün insanların değerlerini, tutumlarını, tercihlerini ve davranışlarını şekillendirdiğine inanıldığından, hizmet personeli ile müşteri arasındaki hizmet alımı sırasındaki sosyal etkileşim, büyük ölçüde hizmet sağlayan personel kültüründen veya müşterilerin kültüründen etkilenebilmektedir. (Mosquera vd., 2011;Nikbin vd., 2016;Schutte ve Ciarlante, 1998;Tebeaux, 1999). Bu nedenle özellikle farklı kültürlerden insanlara hizmet sunan turizm işletmelerinde kültür, insanların işleri yapma ve sosyal ve ticari etkileşimlere girme şeklini önemli ölçüde etkiler (Hofstede, 2015). ...
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January 1999
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
... Although female students wrote to anonymous audience, they still showed concern about people around them, and tried to soften and mitigate the impact of the argument they had written. Gender differences have also been revealed in written business communications (Tebeaux, 1990). These differences include concern with audience, tone, content design, and style. ...
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January 1990
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
... This would require research on multiple fronts, a process that did not actually begin in any concerted way for another 30 years. Although technical communication teachers were being recruited shortly after the war to meet growing industry demands for technical writers Kynell, 1996;, and although some of those teachers began publishing articles and textbooks almost immediately, their publications focused on teaching practices-essentially teaching tips for freshly appointed and inexperienced college instructors (Cunningham & Harris, 1994;Cunningham & Hertz, 1970;Kynell & Tebeaux, 2009). It was not until the 1980s that a need for serious research-theoretical and empirical-was realized, and not, initially, with much enthusiasm. ...
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March 2009
Technical Communication Quarterly
... Although Thompson and Smith (2006) identified 11 articles about women, only four related to the history of women in technical writing. In addition, each of these four articles looks specifically at texts written in English, and only Elizabeth Tebeaux (1998), who analyzed the work of women technical writers from 1641 to 1700, looks at works written before the 19th century. ...
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March 1998
Technical Communication Quarterly