Technical Communication Quarterly Apr 2004

The CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication: A Retrospective Analysis

Stuart A. Selber

Abstract

This article presents the history, purposes, outcomes, and significance of the CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication during its first five years. It analyzes the topical areas and research methods of the 34 dissertations nominated for the award from 1999 to 2003, as well as the evaluations of the judges. Methods of the nominated dissertations are interpretive (41%) and empirical (59%), but many dissertations combine methods. In the empirical category, qualitative methods (17) outnumber quantitative methods (3). The most frequent topical areas are workplace practice (8), rhetoric of the disciplines (7), and information design (6). Topics that are not widely investigated include issues of race and class and international communication.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2004-04-01
DOI
10.1207/s15427625tcq1302_2
Open Access
Closed
Topics
technical communication

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