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Content management and the production of genres

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SIGDOC '07: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1297144.1297147

Published: 22 October 2007 Publication History

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In this paper, I suggest that granularized content management introduces as-yet-unexplored issues to genres of technical communication. I argue that content management, while it can, as advertised, free content and make it easy to reuse that content in multiple genres, that flexibility can create new problems for genres and genre systems, leading to problematic reuse, inflexible genre systems, rigid and proprietary genres, and uncritical internationalization.

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Content management and the production of genres
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation

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SIGDOC '07: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

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DOI:10.1145/1297144

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