Staples, Katherine. Technical Communication from 1950-1998: Where Are We Now? Technical Communication Quarterly. Spring 1999, Vol. 8, No. 2 (153-64)
TW is mature as a discipline, is linked to workplaces and academia via pedagogy and research. However, maturity means moving away from TW's history and role as a service course.
154 GI Bill of 1944 swamped colleges with new kinds of students
154 popularity of engineering programs= popularity/need for TC/TW courses
155 TC instruction considered graphic as well as verbal presentations by end of 50s
155 TC largely taught by adjuncts/untenured in English & engineering depts.
156 by early 1970s, ten academic programs in TC/TW started
157 TC credentials/education regarded as a career advantage in 1984
157 key to professional identity was the foundation of professional journals in the 70s
158 schism in the profession in the 80s with growth: old-school, post-war men learned mostly by practice vs. new guard w/PhDs, capable in Rhet, and women
159 "Like Harris, Miller argues that praxis, applied craft, and techne, reflective art, can usefully support one another in technical communication."
161 TC/TW origins: teaching & a long relationship with applied technologies and with the workplace
161 the value of scholarship on teaching/theory is questioned by workplace/pragmatic advocates
Interesting articles referenced:
Fox on composition studies?
Kynell, Teresa Writing in a Milieu of Utility
Miller, Carolyn "What's practical about Technical Writing" 1989
apparently the article has important references about TW pedagogy and keeping critical awareness about when working with industry
Redish & Judith Ramey 1993 study about value added to tech products by communicators
"Special Section: Measuring the value added by professional technical communicators. TC 42 (1995): 23-29
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