Commentary on "Planning and Information Foraging Theories and their Value to the Novice Technical Communicator"
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/882061.882066
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Eaton, Angela
Journal of Computer Documentation
2002

Abstract:

Gattis should be applauded for finding cognitive theories that might be of use to the field, for describing them well with current resources, and for applying them to technical communication with an example. The two theories, however, are too intuitive to provide much value for describing existing behavior or for novices to use as tools.