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Subject:Re: A Definition of Tech Comm From:Stuart Selber <sselber -at- MTU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 9 Dec 1994 10:13:03 -0500
So distortion would include readers backgrounds, experiences, frames of
reference, intellectual habits, ways/styles of learning, and so on?
Stuart
Joe Little writes:
> (1) In this context, effective means "with the
least amount > of distortion." Distortion causes the reader/audience to
> receive a different message than the writer/speaker intended
> to send.