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A Bibliography of Works Published in the History of Professional Communication from 1994–2009: Part 2

Part 1 of this essay, published in volume 41, number 2, stated our intent: to assimilate and describe work published on the history of professional communication since 1993, when William Rivers’ landmark essay appeared in Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Part 1 covered the following periods and topics: bibliographies and methodological statements, disciplinary self-consciousness; the classical period; the medieval period; Renaissance technical communication, Renaissance scientific writing; Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English commercial discourse, scientific discourse, English and American Women’s scientific discourse, American technical communication; Nineteenth Century American technical communication, English and American technical communication by women. Part 2 will cover the remaining research we have assimilated. This essay includes Nineteenth century English and American scientific communication, British and American Commercial communication, Chinese commercial communication, visual communication; Twentieth and Twenty-first century technical communication by women, visual communication, commercial communication, scientific communication; discourse on ecology; studies across several centuries; using historical material to teach technical communication; history of instructional methods; and a conclusion that attempts to provide perspective on the body of