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Writing Instructions and How-to-do Manuals across Cultures
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Copyright:
2012
Pages:
35
Source title:
Intercultural Rhetoric and Professional Communication: Technological Advances and Organizational Behavior
Source Author(s)/Editor(s):
Barry Thatcher
(New Mexico State University, USA)
DOI:
10.4018/978-1-61350-450-5.ch010
Keywords:
Business & Management
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Human Aspects of Business
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Information Science Reference
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Social Computing
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Abstract
This chapter demonstrates how culture structures and is embedded in instructional manuals around the world. It examines two car repair instructions from Japan and the United States and two charcoal grill assembly instructions. It provides key units of analysis for professional communicators writing instructional materials for intercultural contexts.
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