Research Catalog

Title

Managing global communication in science and technology / edited by Peter J. Hager, H.J. Scheiber.

Publication

New York : Wiley, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hager, Peter J.
• Scheiber, Howard Jeffrey.

Description

xxi, 365 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Over the past decade, the global economy has spawned explosive growth in international scientific and technical communication. Managing Global Communication in Science and Technology covers the theory and practice of this evolving field, providing scientists, managers, and technical writers with clear guidelines on how to present and communicate scientific ideas and proposals across international boundaries and cultures. Through contributions by leaders in scientific and technical communication, this book provides a timely forum for critical issues in both the management and production aspects of global communication."--Jacket.

Subject

• Communication of technical information
• Communication
• Science
• Technology
• Misinformation
• Communication
• Science
• Technology
• sciences (philosophy)
• science (modern discipline)
• Communication of technical information
• COMMUNICATION THEORY
• TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
• TELECOMMUNICATION
• TECHNOLOGIES

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Technical communicators, and their contribution to the systems development process / Julie Fisher -- Global graphics : effectively managing visual rhetoric for international audiences / Peter J. Hager -- Impact of international standards on technical communication / Ralph E. Robinson -- A participatory approach to communication for developing countries / Deborah C. Andrews -- Technology as a communication nexus : transparent aid or technical hindrance? / Claudio U. Ciborra and H.J. Scheiber -- Creating effective global teams / Diane Hanson -- Document design in the information age : a consideration of hypertext for international technical communication / James A. Inman -- Lessons on efficiency from the field of computing / Thomas Orr -- Influence of linguistic patterns on the transfer of strategic information : a diachronic study of the rhetoric of patent applications in the United States / Monique Frobert-Adamo -- Improving cost-effectiveness in the documentation development process through integrated translation / Karin Spalink -- Message sent versus message received : implications for designing training materials for central and eastern Europeans / Victoria M. Mikelonis -- Café, thé, ou lait? : teaching technical communicators for international publishing : the need for industry-education cooperatives / Bruce W. Speck -- All work, no play, and no education : the American apparel industry's responses to the problems of international child labor / George E. Kennedy -- Managing ecologically responsible publications in the "green" global village / Henrietta Nickels Shirk -- Technical communication in a multicultural world : how to make it an asset in managing international businesses, lessons from Europe and Asia for the 21st century / Jan M. Ulijn and Rajesh Kumar.

ISBN

• 047124922X
• 9780471249221

LCCN

99014001

OCLC

• ocm40762635
• 40762635
• SCSB-1266047

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library