A survey of practitioners' attitudes toward research in technical...

Technical Communication;  November 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......practitioners value research in technical communication; they use it to...for discussing research in technical communication. Unfortunately...leading journals in technical communication. This research grew from a pilot...

Research in technical communication: a view of the past and a challenge...

Technical Communication;  November 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......Applied Research in Technical Communication, in Proceedings...to assess research in technical communication. In assessing research, we must...folklore? In technical communication, as in medicine...other field, research is absolutely...

Wanted: tenure and promotion for technical communication...

Technical Communication;  November 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Maturing academic programs, research and theory development, and exploding...contributed to the coming of age of technical communication as an academic discipline. No...squander taxpayer support on research that is of little value. For...

The State of Research in Technical Communication.(RESEARCH)

Technical Communication;  November 1, 2004 ;     108 words ...The State of Research in Technical Communication A. Blakeslee...Spilka. 2004. Technical communication quarterly 13...the state of research in our field...the status of technical communication research and (2) propose...

Professionalism in technical communication. (Guest Editorial)

Technical Communication;  May 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......Committee conducted research, analyzed the...editorial on technical communication as a profession...specifically in technical communication. 2. Body of...Acquired through Research Our profession...and applied to technical communication issues. Disciplines...involved in ...

Qualitative research in technical communication: issues of value,...

Technical Communication;  November 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......and need for, research in technical communication. For example, in...work in and do research in technical communication, the more likely...growing body of technical communication research by exploring situations...

Points of Reference in Technical Communication Scholarship.

Technical Communication;  August 1, 2001 ;     54 words ...E. Overman Smith. 2000. Technical communication quarterly 9, no. 4:427-453. Identified in this...of over 25,000 citations collected from five technical communication journals between 1988 and 1997. The texts--points of reference--represent the research, theory, and practice of technical ...

The continuing importance of research in technical communication....

Technical Communication;  November 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......the future of technical communication as a discipline...increasing conduct of research, both quantitative...reasons why research is important to technical communication |2~. Let me...briefly here. WHY RESEARCH IS NEEDED To...knowledge. We need research to help us ...

The future is the past: has technical communication arrived as a...

Technical Communication;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......on the definition of technical communication and the role of technology...work * Argues that technical communication demonstrates a stable...INTRODUCTION In the May 2001 Technical communication, Roger Grice and Robert...

Expanding the scope of technical communication: examples from the...

Technical Communication;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the field of technical communication with the daily...scholarship, research, and development...the field of technical communication was not limited...scholarship, research, and development efforts in technical communication build on yet...Society for Technical ...

Challenges and Opportunities: Two Weeks of Teaching Technical...

Technical Communication;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......1999, we learned from Technical communication that Suzhou University...students ... to gain related technical communication work experience ... (Tegtmeimer...had already known that technical communication was not yet an academic...to conduct a seminar in technical ...

Critical Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural Studies.(Book...

The Journal of Business Communication;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural...the field of technical communication, and an approach...to historicize technical communication's roles in hegemonic...that account for technical communication's broader cultural...segments: theory, research, and ...

A practitioner's guide to research methods. (Special Issue: Research in...

Technical Communication;  November 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......growth of technical communication by becoming...about the research methods that...development of technical communication as a discipline...systematic research needed to...business and technical communication research, and second, to help technical ...

Humanistic Aspects of Technical Communication

Journal of American Culture;  January 1, 1997 ;     563 words ......Humanistic Rationale for Technical Communication" (1979) and Steven B...mbrowski's Humanistic Aspects of Technical Communication further emphasizes the...the "human" element in technical communication. In recent years, scholars of technical communication have become ...

The evolution of academic programs in technical communication.

Technical Communication;  February 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......to survive--programs in technical communication must better prepare students...prepared for careers in technical communication as their peers who have...graduates in other fields. Technical communication does not face this problem...correspond with the jobs technical ...