Practices, theories, and traditions: Further thoughts on the disciplinary identities of English and communication Studies

Mailloux, Steven

doi:10.1080/02773940309391248

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“…If disciplines are, as Mailloux (2003) stated, "most fundamentally, the transformation of practical wisdom into accredited techniques, of phronesis into techne" (p. 134), then losing the connections to the practical wisdom and techniques linked to BComm has not strengthened the space currently defined as PC. Instead, as Porter and Sullivan indicated in 2007, much has remained the same with the domain of English studies.…”

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The Disappearance of Business Communication From Professional Communication Programs in English Departments

Dubinsky

Getchell

2021

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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Since 1985, the field of professional communication has grown in size and reputation while maintaining a space within its primary disciplinary home of the English department. This article relies on historical evidence to examine how a field that was once evenly divided between business communication and technical communication is now technical communication-centric, almost to the exclusion of business communication. The authors pose questions about the field of professional communication and how faculty who consider business communication to be their primary discipline (regardless of their disciplinary home) might play a role in future discussions related to disciplinarity and domains of knowledge.

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