Common Japanese-English Translation Issues: 1. Introduction
Let’s open with an illustrative, if hackneyed phrase (my cynical self would call it a cliché): Shihoumi ni kakomareta shimaguni...
Common Japanese-English Translation Issues: 2. Transitions
Overused transitions represent a multifaceted, seldom effectively tackled problem. Japanese uses transitional words and phrases much more frequently than in...
Visual Communication Research (3)
Early in the article, the authors declare that little current research focuses primarily on visual communication. Perhaps this is due...
Visual Communication Research (2)
Effectiveness and Limitations of General Methodology and Specific Methods In case #2 we first encountered the researchers’ probing technique, in...
Visual Communication Research (1)
Field of Research/Key Research Questions It is essential that technical communicators be literate designers of visual information, since the more...
Investigating the Media Preferences of Technical Communicators (4)
Applicability to Professional Practice The findings of the 2006 survey were fully correspondent with the author’s expectations, and offer little...
Investigating the Media Preferences of Technical Communicators (3)
MRT and the Findings of the 2006 Survey According to Daft and Lengel (1984), media richness is a function of...
Investigating the Media Preferences of Technical Communicators (2)
The Survey Key Findings All respondents reported using all channels proposed by McGee; respondents overwhelmingly favoured face-to-face meetings at project...
Investigating the Media Preferences of Technical Communicators (1)
This series of articles examines the media preferences of technical communicators within the conceptual framework provided by the article Communicating...