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Paradigms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peggy Thompson)
Fri Mar 19 11:31:13 1993
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 11:11:00 EST
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From: Peggy Thompson <THOMPSONP@A1.OSTI.GOV>
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L <TECHWR-L%OSUVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Re Stuart Selber:
I think tech communicators are much more than mere transferers of
information and that we must "articulate." But I think, as we
grow as communicators and as our profession evolves, that this is
something we do intuitively.
Not that discussion of models and paradigms is not important;
just that it's awfully easy, it seems to me, to spin off into the
ether on such discussions and leave behind the real issue, which
is (in my very humble opinion):
What does the reader need to know (both in terms of facts and
interpretation--or "articulation") and what is the clearest,
simplest way to convey to the reader what he or she needs to
know? :-)
Peggy Thompson
SAIC - Oak Ridge, TN
thompsonp@a1.osti.gov
