Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Oct 2015

Building Identity and Community Through Research

Carolyn D. Rude Virginia Tech

Abstract

A field’s identity and sustainability depend on its research as well as on programs, practice, and infrastructure. Research and practice have a reciprocal relationship, with practice identifying research questions and researchers answering those questions to improve practice. Technical communication research also has an exploratory purpose, using the knowledge and methods of the field to explain how texts work in a variety of contexts. A gap between research and practice developed in the 1990s. Defining explicitly how the parts of our research and our practice connect to form a whole will give the field a stronger identity

Journal
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published
2015-10-01
DOI
10.1177/0047281615585753
Open Access
Closed
Topics
technical communication multilingual writers

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