Guest Editor's Introduction: Science and Public Policy

• Published in: Technical communication quarterly Vol. 18; no. 1; p. 1
• Main Author: Gibson, Keith
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.01.2009
• Subjects: Budgets; Case studies; Climate change; Colleges & universities; Communication (Thought Transfer); Conversation; Democracy; Developed Nations; Government (Administrative Body); Industrialized nations; Pointing; Politics; Public policy; Quality control; R&D; Research & development; Research and Development; Science history; Scientific Research; Scientists; Success; Teaching; Technical communication; Technical Writing; Translation; New York; United States > US; Chicago Illinois; Utah

In 1973, James Shannon led a seminar series (supported by the National Science Foundation) that focused on the changing roles of die academy and the federal government in sponsoring, and thereby directing, future research projects.\n THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THIS ISSUE This issue, then, is an effort to...