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Author Whittemore, Stewart, author.

Title Rhetorical memory : a study of technical communication and information management / Stewart Whittemore.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Managing information in organizations: an overview of ideas about memory and memory work -- Memory work as embodied rhetorical practice -- Studying rhetorical memory practices in context -- Learning memory -- Embodying memory -- Mastering memory -- The "new" art of memory.
Summary Institutions have regimes--policies that typically come from the top down and are meant to align the efforts of workers with the goals and mission of an institution. Institutions also have practices--day-to-day behaviors performed by individual workers attempting to interpret the institution's missives. Taken as a whole, these form a company's memory regime, and they have a significant effect on how employees analyze, mix, translate, sort, filter, and repurpose everyday information in order to meet the demands of their jobs, their customers, their colleagues, and themselves. In Rhetorical Memory, Stewart Whittemore demonstrates that strategies we use to manage information--techniques often acquired through trial and error, rarely studied, and generally invisible to us--are as important to our success as the end products of our work. First, he situates information management within the larger field of rhetoric, showing that both are tied to purpose, audience, and situation. He then dives into an engaging and tightly focused workplace study, presenting three cases from a team of technical communicators making use of organizational memory during their everyday work. By examining which techniques succeed and which fail, Whittemore illuminates the challenges faced by technical communicators. He concludes with a number of practical strategies to better organize information, that will help employees, managers, and anyone else suffering from information overload.
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Subject Communication of technical information -- United States -- Case studies.
Communication of technical information.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Knowledge management -- United States -- Case studies.
Knowledge management.
Memory.
Memory.
Communication of technical information.
Knowledge management.
Software architecture.
Software architecture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Whittemore, Stewart. Rhetorical memory 9780226263380 (DLC) 2014048488 (OCoLC)899114012
ISBN 9780226263410 (electronic book)
022626341X (electronic book)
9780226263380
022626338X