TY - JOUR
T1 - Coordinating Distributed Memory
T2 - An Environmental Engineer’s Proposal-Writing Process Using a Product Calculator
AU - Bivens, Kristin Marie
AU - Cook, Kelli Cargile
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © The Author(s) 2018.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - This case study of an environmental engineer’s proposal-writing process reveals how the engineer (Beatrice) reifies, archives, and accesses her distributed memory across physical and digital sources in order to write proposals. Based on the authors’ observations of Beatrice’s proposal-writing process and their interviews with her, they arrived at three key conclusions: Beatrice distributes her memory across multiple physical and digital sources, the (spreadsheet) product calculator helps Beatrice to manage her cognitive load and relieve her working memory, and the product calculator allows Beatrice to reassemble her distributed memory and coordinate her cognition.
AB - This case study of an environmental engineer’s proposal-writing process reveals how the engineer (Beatrice) reifies, archives, and accesses her distributed memory across physical and digital sources in order to write proposals. Based on the authors’ observations of Beatrice’s proposal-writing process and their interviews with her, they arrived at three key conclusions: Beatrice distributes her memory across multiple physical and digital sources, the (spreadsheet) product calculator helps Beatrice to manage her cognitive load and relieve her working memory, and the product calculator allows Beatrice to reassemble her distributed memory and coordinate her cognition.
KW - distributed cognition
KW - engineering communication
KW - memory
KW - proposal writing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047125516&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1050651918762028
DO - 10.1177/1050651918762028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047125516
VL - 32
SP - 285
EP - 307
JO - Journal of Business and Technical Communication
JF - Journal of Business and Technical Communication
SN - 1050-6519
IS - 3
ER -