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The future is the past: has technical communication arrived as a profession?(APPLIED RESEARCH)
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Technical Communication
- Article date:
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August 1, 2005
- Author:
- Pringle, Kathy; Williams, Sean
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SUMMARY
* Reports results of a practitioner survey on the definition of technical communication and the role of technology in their work
* Argues that technical communication demonstrates a stable set of core values which suggest the field has a professional identity
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INTRODUCTION
In the May 2001 Technical communication, Roger Grice and Robert Krull introduced a special issue on the future of technical communication by outlining some skills that participants at a 1997 conference at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute had identified. From the list of things identified at that conference, Grice and Krull suggest that three categories run through all ...