Building a Community of Professional Communicators by Mapping Needs and Assets
http://www.cptsc.org/conferences/2001/sessions/blythe.pdf
  peer-reviewed

Blythe, Stuart
CPTSC Proceedings
2001

Abstract:

For an institution with a regional focus, part of program building involves identifying resources in the region the program serves. This effort can be complicated in regions that generally lack the kind of high-tech industry that draws technical communicators. One cannot easily find a ready-madecommunity of professional communicators in such places, leaving some to wonder whether a professional writing program would be able to thrive. Nevertheless, communicators are ubiquitous, even if most of them don’t identify themselves as such.