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Women Authors Of Technical Writing Textbooks From 1923 To 1973, Melissa Nicole Wampler
Women Authors Of Technical Writing Textbooks From 1923 To 1973, Melissa Nicole Wampler
Masters Theses
"The published histories of technical writing textbooks do not usually include many women-authored textbooks. To find out why women-authored textbooks have been marginalized in these pedagogical histories, I selected seven women-authored textbooks and four men-authored textbooks published from 1923 to 1973, investigated the backgrounds of the authors and key features of their textbooks, and used the collected data to compare the women-authored textbooks to the men-authored textbooks. I was not able to find any reason why the women-authored textbooks have been or should be marginalized in histories of technical writing textbooks; however, my study had several limitations. My thesis begins …