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Beyond "Just Use the Free One": Connecting the Economics and Use of Technical Communication Tools
(2020-05) Wold, Ryan
This poster provides guidance for technical communicators navigating technology adoption decisions. First, this poster provides quotes from professional technical communicators suggesting that the pricing of technical communication tools can influence the way technical communication teams work. Second, it shows the methods and results of a research study that evaluated the pricing scheme of 30 commonly used technical communication tools. Models demonstrate how the pricing strategies, versioning strategies, and onboarding strategies used by the proprietors of technical communication tools can influence the way teams use those tools. This research indicates the strategies used to price software tools can affect usability, as minor differences at every level of a company’s pricing scheme can influence user behavior.
Pragmatic Approaches to Learning Objectives: A Survey of Writing Instructors
(2017-04-25) Bollig, Nathan W
This exploratory project seeks to understand the practical ways that teachers incorporate instructional documents and frameworks, like learning objectives, into their pedagogies and classroom practices. Specifically, this researcher conducts a survey that asks: How do instructors approach learning objectives in praxis?