Guest Editors' Introduction: Rationalizing and Rhetoricizing Content Management

The industry of information management and distribution is increasingly interested in CMSs, as witnessed by the ninth annual Content Management Strategies conference in 2007 (http://www.cm-strategies.com); the presence of numerous consulting firms offering advice about how to manage information asse...

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Published in:Technical communication quarterly 2008-01, Vol.17 (1), p.1
Main Authors: Pullman, George, Gu, Baotong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business
Collaboration
Communication Research
Computer Software
Content management software
Design
Educational Technology
Evaluative Thinking
Information management
Knowledge management
Management Systems
Pullman, George M
Researchers
Teaching Methods
Technical communication
Technical Writing
User needs
User Needs (Information)
Writing
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Summary:The industry of information management and distribution is increasingly interested in CMSs, as witnessed by the ninth annual Content Management Strategies conference in 2007 (http://www.cm-strategies.com); the presence of numerous consulting firms offering advice about how to manage information assets; and a rising tide of books devoted to teaching people how to use XML to "datatize" text, separate form from content, and make it possible to search, sort, and repurpose information on the fly. Developing a Collaborative Single-Sourcing Curriculum, she examines ttiree prominent approaches of structured writing: the project-based, bottom-up approach by Kurt Ament, who outlines methods of modular writing for 19 different modules; the information modeling approach proposed by Ann Rockley, who adopts a bidirectional approach to structure by considering both high-level analyses and explicit guidelines; and the tiered-information approach by JoAnne Hackos, who developed a theory of structure that consists of three components: an Information Model, information types, and content units.
ISSN:1057-2252
1542-7625