Search Results - "Journal of technical writing and communication"

The Structure of Scientific Writing: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Research Articles in STEM by Moskovitz, Cary, Harmon, Brooke, Saha, Srishti

“…While the IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) format is common in scientific writing, it may not currently be as ubiquitous as often…”
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Investigating the Impact of Design Thinking, Content Strategy, and Artificial Intelligence: A “Streams” Approach for Technical Communication and User Experience by Verhulsdonck, Gustav, Howard, Tharon, Tham, Jason

“…Technical and professional communication (TPC) and user experience (UX) design are often seen as intertwined due to being user-centered. Yet, as widening…”
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Don’t Read the Comments: Discourse About COVID-19 Vaccines in a State Health Department's Social Media Comments by Kenzie, Daniel, Anderson, Murphy

“…As the United States rolled out COVID-19 vaccinations, state health departments attempted to communicate quickly evolving information about vaccines amid…”
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Improving ChatGPT's Competency in Generating Effective Business Communication Messages: Integrating Rhetorical Genre Analysis into Prompting Techniques by Wang, Junhua

“…This study explores how prompting techniques, especially those integrated with rhetorical analysis results, may improve the effectiveness of artificial…”
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Generative AI in Technical Communication: A Review of Research from 2023 to 2024 by Reeves, Carol, Sylvia, J.J.

“…Since its release in late 2022, ChatGPT and subsequent generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools have raised a wide variety of questions and concerns for…”
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Surveillance Work in (and) Teaching Technical Writing with AI by Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut, Reeves, Joshua

“…The use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) large language models has increased in both professional and classroom technical writing settings. One…”
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Role Play: Conversational Roles as a Framework for Reflexive Practice in AI-Assisted Qualitative Research by Thominet, Luke, Amorim, Jacqueline, Acosta, Kristine, Sohan, Vanessa K.

“…Previous literature has shown that generative artificial intelligence (GAI) software, including large language model (LLM) chatbots, might contribute to…”
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Beyond the Robot Tropes: Embracing Nuance and Context in the Adoption of Generative AI by Sylvia, J. J., Reeves, Carol

“…This introductory article examines the evolving landscape of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools, contextualizing their impact through historical…”
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You Accepted What?: The Impact of Location, Education, and Negotiation on Technical Communication Graduates’ Salaries by Seawright, Leslie, Stanton, Rhonda

“…In the discipline of technical/professional writing and communication, one of the strongest recruiting tools we use is the potential earning power students…”
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Toward TPC-UX: UX Topics in TPC Journals 2013–2022 by Hunter, Paul Thompson

“…This article offers a content analysis of technical and professional communication articles related to user experience (TPC-UX) published between 2013 and 2022…”
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Simply Effective? Simplified User Interfaces in Software Tutorials by Bsdurrek, Pia, Meng, Michael

“…Simplified user interfaces (SUIs) refer to a new design technique in technical communication that simplifies screenshots by removing irrelevant elements and…”
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Improving Proposal Writing by Looking to Information Operations by Axelrod, Seth J.

“…This article examines the subject of persuasion in technical and professional communications (TPC) with a specific focus on proposals in U.S. Government…”
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Asking is Hard: Appeals Language in Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaigns by Carradini, Stephen, Nystrom, Eric C.

“…Asking for money is one of the core communicative functions of a crowdfunding campaign. This article uses a novel corpus analysis scoring technique to…”
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“Technical Editing and Women Scientists Were Made for Each Other”: Ethaline H. Cortelyou's Career Advice to Women in the Sciences by Malone, Edward A.

“…Chemist Ethaline Cortelyou, a significant figure in the emerging profession of technical communication in the 1950s, became a national mentor to women in the…”
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Advancing the Knowledge Base on Effective Presentation Slide Design: Three Pilot Studies by Wolfe, Joanna, Shanmugaraj, Nisha, Reineke, Juliann, Caton Peet, Laura, Moreau, Craig P.

“…The cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML) describes a set of empirically tested principles that technical and professional communication research…”
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Risk Revisited: The Role of Technical Communication in Negotiating Barriers to Effective Health Risk Messaging by Lambrecht, Kathryn

“…Social media, the pandemic, and environmental hazards have all played a role in shifting the landscape of risk communication. This paper takes a retroactive…”
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ARCO Mapping the Cognitive Dynamics of Communication Expectations: An Approach to Designing Usable Content Based on Audience Expectations by St.Amant, Kirk

“…The usability of items is connected to cognition, or how the brain processes information. Many of the related processes occur subconsciously and are guided by…”
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A Field Wide Snapshot of Student Learning Outcomes in the Technical and Professional Communication Service Course by Griffith, Jessica, Zarlengo, Tanya, Melonçon, Lisa

“…Using the technical and professional communication service course as the site for research, and student learning outcomes (SLOs) as the specific focus, we…”
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Emojination Facilitates Inclusive Emoji Design Through Technical Writing: Fitting Tactical Technical Communication Inside Institutional Structures by Gallagher, John R., Avgoustopoulos, Rebecca E.

“…Creating new emojis is predicated on a system of technical writing that lobbies for new emojis to the Unicode Consortium. Emojination, an activist collective…”
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New Opportunities for Japanese Universities to Internationalize Communication Courses by Fujio, Misa

“…Due to the economic sluggishness seen in Japan over the past few decades and the shrinking inward investment market, the Japanese government has introduced…”
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