Professional communication and scientific tradition

["A. Lamberti" <alambert -at- iastate -dot- edu>]

Hello everyone:  Please excuse me if this issue has been discussed in the 
past; I'm a newbie.

Lately I've been reading a lot of journal articles which argue that 
professional and technical communication is heavily--if not 
exclusively--shaped by the scientific tradition.  In other words, the 
replicability, predictability, testability of scientific inquiry can be 
seen clearly in professional communication practices (style guides often 
are cited as an example).

While these articles are interesting, they are all written by 
academics.  To "round out" my understanding of this topic, I now am looking 
for articles that have been written by practitioners.  If anyone has a 
suggestion about a "must-read" and could email me off-list, I'd GREATLY 
appreciate it!

Many thanks,
Adrienne L.


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