The Big Chill: Seven Technical Communicators Talk Ten Years After Their Master's Program
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Wilson, Greg and Julie Dyke Ford
Technical Communication Online
2003

Abstract:

Recounts the experiences of seven professionals entering the field and the ways their perceptions of the profession and roles within it have changed. Explores the variety of roles technical communicators are expected to assume