Expanding Our Borders to New Sites of Practice
http://www.cptsc.org/conferences/2003/abstracts_03_n-z.htm#Rude
  peer-reviewed

Rude, Carolyn D.
CPTSC Proceedings
2003

Abstract:

Vital academic programs have a component in practice and an obvious connection of research and theory to the undergraduate classroom. This position (not a truth) could explain, in part, the growth of technical communication as an academic discipline over the past two decades while the study of literature, often in the same department, has declined.