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The continual redefinition and constriction of the technical communication field has reached epidemic proportions, so much so that the field as it has existed for the last several decades could soon cease to exist. However, many emerging fields encompass aspects of technical communication, with user experience and content strategy as the clearest examples. Discussion of how the integration of technical communication into these fields is happening on a practitioner's level and how this will potentially change the face of the profession of technical communication will be investigated. Additionally, a review of how several technical communication university programs responded to this evolution will be discussed.
LaRoche et al. (Mon,) studied this question.