Planning and information foraging theories and their value to the novice technical communicator

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Planning and information foraging theories and their value to the novice technical communicator

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Volume 26 , Issue 4 (November 2002) table of contents

Pages: 168 - 175

Year of Publication: 2002

ISSN:1527-6805

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Lyn Gattis

Oklahoma State University

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Two complementary cognitive theories help to explain how novice technical communicators learn effective search methods: information foraging theory, a model of information-seeking behavior that combines human-computer interaction with anthropological constructs; and strategic planning theory, a communication model of how humans plan and achieve social goals. The paper includes an extended example of how a new communicator might learn to use both models on the job.

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