Designing communication
Ashley G. Williams, Mary Moore · 2006
Over the past ten years, technical communicators-theorists and practitioners alike-have been acknowledging change and growth in the field. For example, what once was considered merely writing about technical subjects or objects now encompasses writing the technology itself, in that we are designing complex systems to facilitate the work we do. As the technical communication discipline grows, we report on select trends in the SIGDOC proceedings in recent years to examine the widening of boundaries of the discipline. By doing so, we aim to provide context and situation for the ever-changing role of the technical communicator