13 pages., The original website no longer has a copy of the article. Access is available through ERIC database. ERIC Number: EJ890607, Via online source., This article discusses three sites that disrupt accustomed expectations and roles for technical communication. These sites include an agricultural processing site that is requesting tax abatements in exchange for decreased emissions so that it can remain competitive in the global market. The second is also an agricultural manufacturing site that remains globally competitive by increasing efficiencies and expanding the range of products made at the site. Finally, the essay discusses a manufacturing facility that takes finished products-automobiles-and remanufactures them for a niche market of users. Each of these Midwestern sites is globally competitive and challenges expectations for high technology work. Taken together, they gesture toward new definitions of work, in new postindustrial context, and offer insight for defining technical communication in the postindustrial age. The remaining challenge, for scholars and teachers, is to articulate emerging literacy practices supporting postindustrial manufacturing, and to participate in the knowledge management that supports innovation. Here, each site takes something that would have previously been considered either finished product or waste and rearticulates it as an ingredient in a new product. At the least, technical communicators will need to learn to document such organization's innovation and change. At best, such change invites technical communicators, acting as knowledge managers, to articulate opportunities for innovation. Research, a traditional strength of technical writing preparation, allows organizations to better prepare and understand change, turning disruption into opportunity. Postindustrial business practices are no longer the work of futurists, but the reality and structure of the workplace today. Each work site described in this article presents opportunities for basic research into emerging workplaces in need of the expertise of technical and professional writers; each is an example and potential model for knowledge work.
Book, Michael (author), Cavanaugh-Grant, Deborah (author), Gerber, John M. (author), Heinzmann, Ken (author), Rahe, Michael (author), Reuschel, Louis (author), Zehr, Douglas (author), and Heinzmann: Vice-president of the Southeastern Illinois Sustainable Agriculture Association, Sandoval, IL; Book: farmer, Harvard, IL; Cavanaugh-Grant: Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, Springfield, IL; Gerber: Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Rahe: Division of Natural Resources, Illinois Department of Agriculture, Springfield, IL; Reuschel: farmer, Golden, IL; Zehr: On-Farm Research Coordinator, Illinois Stewardship Alliance, Gibson City, IL
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06372
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, [s.l.] : the State of Illinois Sustainable Agriculture Committee, November 1991. 54 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12708
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16 pages. located in IDEAL on the university library page., Severe drouth' and a chinch-bug infestation cooperated last year for the destruction of crops in Illinois; but we have found means of separating the two effects by an analysis and comparison of crop reports in two groups of counties, in one of which both of these agencies were present and in the other only one. It is my conclusion, from these- data,· that between four and five million dollars' worth of corn wheat, oats, and forage grasses were destroyed by the chinch-bug last year in this state.
Flint, W.P. (author), Bigger, J.H. (author), and Dungan, George Harlan (author)
Format:
Circular
Publication Date:
1934-04
Published:
USA: Univeristy of Illinios, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12707
Notes:
16 pages. It can be found in IDEALS on the university library page., THE CHINCH BUG is one of the three or four most destructive crop pests known in the United States.
Ever since the Illinois prairies were first cultivated, chinch bugs have been collecting a heavy g rain rent from the corn growers of the state. A loss of practically 6 1/2 million dollars to the farmers in 17 counties in southwestern Illinois is estimated to have resulted from damage
done by these insects in one year when the bugs were numerous. This loss was from direct damage to corn, wheat, and oats, and did not take into account damage to other crops and secondary losses.
This circular tells how to combat this pest by growing crops on which the chinch bug does not feed, by adjusting rotations, by planting varieties of corn that are relatively resistant to chinch bug damage, and by building effective barriers to prevent the bugs from invading fields
of corn. By the timely use of these various methods, chinch bug damage can be largely prevented.
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