article · Journal of Business and Technical Communication · 2018

Coordinating Distributed Memory

Kristin Marie Bivens, Kelli Cargile Cook

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Abstract

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.

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APA 7

Bivens, K. M., & Cook, K. C. (2018). Coordinating Distributed Memory. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 32(3), 285–307. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651918762028

MLA 9

Bivens, Kristin Marie, and Kelli Cargile Cook. “Coordinating Distributed Memory.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, vol. 32, no. 3, 2018, pp. 285–307, https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651918762028.

Chicago

Bivens, Kristin Marie, and Kelli Cargile Cook. 2018. “Coordinating Distributed Memory.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 32 (3): 285–307. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651918762028.

Harvard

Bivens, K.M. and Cook, K.C. (2018) ‘Coordinating Distributed Memory’, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 32(3), pp. 285–307. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651918762028.

BibTeX

@article{bivens2018coordinating,
  title = {{Coordinating Distributed Memory}},
  author = {Bivens, Kristin Marie and Cook, Kelli Cargile},
  journal = {Journal of Business and Technical Communication},
  volume = {32},
  number = {3},
  pages = {285--307},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.1177/1050651918762028}
}

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