Flash Documentation: The Appropriation of “Workplace” Genres for Regenerative Living, Social Justice, and Community Resiliency

Flash Documentation

Flash Documentation • uses EXISTING RELATIVELY LOW PRICED TECHNOLOGY for • RAPID ONSITE INFORMATION GATHERING and editing with • the MOTIVE OF BUILDING conceptual, strategic, and personal RELATIONSHIPS between local knowledge and global movements • for SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH.

Flash Documentation • provides OPEN SOURCE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES with • MINIMAL INTERRUPTION to the project being documented.

The Teaching and Practice of Technical Writing

How are “world-change activists” appropriating technical writing genres typically employed for the motive of economic gain to resist and reform the local and global conditions that brought them into being?

What implications might this have on how we teach the field of technical writing as a humanities-based tradition?

Audience, Purpose, Subject, Situation

Style Guides

...Layout Design and Repetition

Definitions and Instructions

Brochures and Pamphlets

…and Field Manuals

Training Videos

Charts and Figures

Infographics

B

Memos

Letters

Translation

Content Multi Purposing

Project Planning

Localization

User Oriented Knowledge

and Product Development

Flash Documentation

Flash Documentation • uses EXISTING RELATIVELY LOW PRICED TECHNOLOGY for • RAPID ONSITE INFORMATION GATHERING and editing with • the MOTIVE OF BUILDING conceptual, strategic, and personal RELATIONSHIPS between local knowledge and global movements • for SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH.

Flash Documentation • provides OPEN SOURCE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES with • MINIMAL INTERRUPTION to the project being documented.