Discovering the Mosaic of Research Profiles

摘要

Each issue of Technical Communication offers a variety of articles by a variety of authors, with each author usually contributing a single article to the issue. This important and historical practice of virtually every scholarly journal gives voice to the diversity of research in a field, but it does obscure a key trait of this research: None of the articles exist in isolation from the author's earlier or later research projects. Obviously, each article must be a separate and independent study that is itself worthwhile reading, but each is also a piece in the mosaic of the author's research profile, and each asserts and acquires meaning from its position in that mosaic.