Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2006 Preserving organizational knowledge with proper document management Oksana Kornilova Opsomer Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, and the Rhetoric and Composition Commons Recommended Citation Opsomer, Oksana Kornilova, "Preserving organizational knowledge with proper document management " (2006). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 7113. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/7113 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Preserving organizational knowledge with proper document management by Oksana Kornilova Opsomer A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ART Major: Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication Program of Study Committee: Lee Honeycutt, Major Professor Donald Payne Hilary Seo Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2006 Copyright © Oksana Kornilova Opsomer, 2006. All rights reserved. 11 Graduate College Iowa State University This is to certify that the master's thesis of Oksana Komilova Opsomer has met the thesis requirements of Iowa State University Signatures have been redacted for privacy Ill Table of Contents List of Figures iv List ofTables v Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Technical Communicators' Role in Knowledge Management 3 Chapter 2. Knowledge Management or Document Management 7 Knowledge Management 7 Document Management 11 Chapter 3.