Dobrin: What’s Technical about Technical Writing

Dobrin, D. N. (2004). What’s technical about technical writing. In J. Johnson-Eilola & S. A. Selber (eds.), Central works in technical communication (pp. 107-123). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Dobrin offers this brief definition of technical writing: “technical writing is writing that accommodates technology to the user” (p. 118). He offers this “new” definition in response to previous definitions…
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