Forum: Teaching international technical communication

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• bThe primary text in the course is Deborah Andrews's Technical Communication in the GlobalCommunity and its Web site at http://www.prenhall.com/andrews/. The electrical and computing engineers interested in documentation also work with William Horton's Designing and Writing Online Documentation. A visit to the course Web site will indicate the wide range of other Web sites involved in course activities.
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