%0 Journal Article
%T Coordinating Distributed Memory:  An Environmental Engineer¡¯s Proposal
%A Kelli Cargile Cook
%A Kristin Marie Bivens
%J Journal of Business and Technical Communication
%@ 1552-4574
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1050651918762028
%X 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
%K engineering communication
%K proposal writing
%K distributed cognition
%K memory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1050651918762028