By surveying a sample of 116 articles and six book reviews, this article shows how contributors to the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1981-86, described the purposes of engineering writing, the engineering writer's audience, and the engineering writer's task.The professed purpose and intended audience of this periodical are shifting:• From describing technical communication as an art in itself to developing technical communication as a tool in the engineer's tool chest
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