Tuesday, April 24, 2007. CIOL TWB partners with Virginia Tech University.
BANGALORE: The Writers Block (TWB) in association with Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA announces the launch of research project on outsourcing and off-shoring of technical documentation. The project is entitled “Teaching Technical Writing in the Context of Outsourcing: Comparative Assessment of Cross-Cultural and Rhetorical Competence”.
The new project will address the cultural and rhetorical dilemmas for future technical writers in America as well as for offshore professionals in technical writing located in India.
The purpose of the study is to ascertain: What jobs/tasks in technical writing projects can be effectively outsourced; and What jobs/tasks can be better performed in the United States in order to produce cultural and rhetorically competent documentation? The study is not only timely but also imperative given the lack of empirical research in the area and the current professional fears, doubts and misconceptions about outsourcing prevalent in the United States.
“Since there is little data that is available on the subject and since TWB has clearly an understanding of, and a commitment to the market, TWB decided to work with Virginia Tech for original research to understand these drivers and challenges” says Dr Evia.
“We decided to collaborate with The Writers Block in this project based on a personal recommendation from the former president of STC in India according to whom The Writers Block and particularly Dr. Annapoorna Ravichander are creative and innovative forces in outsourced technical documentation projects. We are very happy and satisfied with this decision” he added.
