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Legitimizing Situated Knowledge in Rural Communities Through Storytelling Around Gas Pipelines and Environmental Risk

By November 1, 2021October 3rd, 2023No Comments

By: Carlson, Erin Brock, & Martina Angela Caretta

A scholarly article from the November 2021 issue of Technical Communication, demonstrates that rural landowners and community members’ place-based knowledge is expertise that should be considered by technical communication professionals.

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