Expanding and redirecting historical research in technical writing: In search of our past

Elizabeth Tebeaux Texas A&M University ; M. Jimmie Killingsworth Texas A&M University

Abstract

This study suggests an approach for expanding and integrating research to produce a history of technical writing. The study defines problems that reside in writing such a history, suggests research premises and questions, and then applies these questions to technical writing as it existed in the English Renaissance, 1475–1640.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
1992-03-01
DOI
10.1080/10572259209359496
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