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PART 1: HISTORIES1. Robert Connors, "The Rise of Technical Writing Instruction in America"2. Russell Rutter, "History, Rhetoric, and Humanism: Toward a More Comprehensive Definition of Technical Communication"3. Katherine T. Durack, "Gender, Technology, and the History of Technical Communication"PART 2: RHETORICAL PERSPECTIVES4. Carolyn R. Miller, "A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing"5. Linda Driskill, "Understanding the Writing Context in Organizations"6. Carolyn D. Rude, "The Report for Decision Making: Genre and Inquiry"7. Robert R. Johnson, "Audience Involved: Toward a Participatory Model of Writing"PART 3: PHILOSOPHIES AND THEORIES8. David N. Dobrin, "What's Technical about Technical Writing?"9. Charlotte Thralls and Nancy Roundy Blyler, "The Social Perspective and Professional Communication: Diversity and Directions in Research"10. Mary M. Lay, "Feminist Theory and the Redefinition of Technical Communication"11. Jennifer Daryl Slack, David James Miller, and Jeffrey Doak, "The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority"12. Johndan Johnson-Eilola, "Relocating the Value of Work: Technical Communication in a Post-Industrial Age"PART 4: ETHICAL AND POWER ISSUES13. Steven B. Katz, "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust"14. Dale L. Sullivan, "Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communication as a Practice"15. Carl G. Herndl, "Teaching Discourse and Reproducing Culture: A Critique of Research and Pedagogy in Professional and Non-Academic Writing"16. Ben F. Barton and Marthalee S. Barton, "Ideology and the Map: Toward a Postmodern Visual Design Practice"PART 5: RESEARCH METHODS17. Teresa M. Harrison, "Frameworks for the Study of Writing in Organizational Contexts"18. Nancy Roundy Blyler, "Taking a Political Turn: The Critical Perspective and Research in Professional Communication"19. Davida Charney, "Empiricism Is Not a Four-Letter Word"20. Patricia Sullivan and James E. Porter, "On Theory, Practice, and Method: Toward a Heuristic Research Methodology for Professional Writing"PART 6: WORKPLACE STUDIES21. Jack Selzer, "The Composing Processes of an Engineer"22. Stephen Doheny-Farina, "Writing in an Emerging Organization: An Ethnographic Study"23. Dorothy A. Winsor, "Engineering Writing/Writing Engineering"24. Nancy Allen, Dianne Atkinson, Meg Morgan, Teresa Moore, and Craig Snow, "What Experienced Collaborators Say about Collaborative Writing"25. James Paradis, "Text and Action: The Operator's Manual in Context and in Court"26. Barbara Mirel, "Writing and Database Technology: Extending the Definition of Writing in the Workplace"PART 7: ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS27. Tharon W. Howard, "Who 'Owns' Electronic Texts?"28. Stephen A. Bernhardt, "The Shape of Text to Come: The Texture of Print on Screens"29. Cynthia L. Selfe and Richard J. Selfe, Jr., "The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones"PART 8: PEDAGOGICAL DIRECTIONS30. Stuart A. Selber, "Beyond Skill Building: Challenges Facing Technical Communication Teachers in the Computer Age"31. Deborah S. Bosley, "Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?"32. Lee E. Brasseur, "Contesting the Objectivist Paradigm: Gender Issues in the Technical and Professional Communication Curriculum"Bibliographic Resources in Technical Communication