Contemporary Research Methodologies in Technical Communication

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors extend thanks to everyone involved in this special issue. In particular, the authors thank TCQ's previous editor Amy Koerber, who greenlighted this project, as well as the current editor, Donna Kain, who brought it to fruition. The authors also thank the TCQ editorial board for accepting their special issue proposal. The authors thank, too, the many reviewers who provided measured and thoughtful reviews. Most of all, the authors extend thanks to the authors in this special issue.

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Brian McNely

Brian McNely is an assistant professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies at the University of Kentucky. He studies everyday genres, technologies, objects, and practices of communication using qualitative methodologies and visual research methods.

Clay Spinuzzi

Clay Spinuzzi is a professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies how people organize, communicate, collaborate, and innovate at work. Spinuzzi has conducted multiple workplace studies, resulting in several articles and four books: Tracing Genres through Organizations (MIT Press, 2003); Network (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Topsight (Amazon CreateSpace, 2013); and All Edge (University of Chicago Press, 2015). He blogs at spinuzzi.blogspot.com.

Christa Teston

Christa Teston is an assistant professor at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She investigates how people—through texts, images, statistical constructions, and other embodied sensory input—manage uncertainty. Her research sites include complex, collaborative, technologically mediated workplaces wherein scientific and medical decision making takes place.