Experiencing Technical Writing as Textual Coordination
http://www.stc.org/ConfProceed/2005/PDFs/0031.pdf

Slattery, Shaun
STC Proceedings
2005

Abstract:

This paper describes a recent study of how of four technical writers managed the many artifacts (existing texts and information technologies for producing and manipulating text) that mediated their writing process. The author describes the study and characterizes several recurrent patterns of mediation, including textual reuse, remediation of information, and the staging of texts and software programs. The author describes the value of a repertoire of information technologies to technical writing and argues that technological skill should be considered a core competency of the field.