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Peer reviewedThatcher, Barry L. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1999
Explores intercultural communication in one multinational organization in Quito, Ecuador where United States and South American personnel developed documentation and instructional texts. Finds that communication of South Americans was usually oral, contextual, concrete, personal, and narrative; and that of U.S. personnel was written, acontextual,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Documentation, Higher Education
