Diverging Interests: Claims to Legitimacy in Technical Communication
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/hu_dept/tc@mtu/papers/diverge.htm

Anderson, Ginger
Michigan Tech University
1998

Abstract:

As technical communication becomes more firmly established as a field, those in the discipline of technical communication and those in the profession are finding, sometimes to their surprise, that their interests differ. This difference is reflected in the varying claims to legitimacy made by those in professional practice and those in academia. These claims to legitimacy not only differ, but at times seem to be at odds with one another.