Essay Awareness Essays With this *JCDissue we launch a new feature: a quarterly "awareness" essay, in which a SIGDOC commentator calls attention to what he or she regards as interesting and documentation-relevant recent trends, problems, or publications in some related field. Stephen Bernhardt graciously inaugurates this awareness series with a personal look at pharmaceutical documentation. Technology-Driven Documentation Pharmaceutical Industry in the Stephen A. Bernhardt, Senior Consultant, Scientific Services, Shipley Associates, Bountiful, Utah Professor of English, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM A s Professor of English in a department with a strong scientific and technical communication program, l think frequently about the computer documentation industry and its needs. In my courses on computer systems documentation, computers and writing, and developing online information systems, my graduate students and I concentrate on issues in creating documentation for end users. Frequently, my students end up interning and working in the computer industry. The books we read and the projects we take on frequently have a computer systems perspective: the books and research are written by people who write manuals or online information systems, or who are composing hypertext for one purpose or another, or who are university researchers with particular
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