Write a well-researched essay of approximately 12 pages (approximately 3500 -4000 words) that examines closely one issue in technical communication or within a set of communication technologies and its implications for contemporary or historical users and its profession. You must include a Works Cited of at least ten credible (expert and recent) primary or secondary sources, two of which may be drawn from our syllabus. Keep your focus on one historical or contemporary issue in technical communications. You should probably limit your analysis to a particular period of time (a decade, for example), and you could even narrow it to a close reading of single primary text, with critical support from expert secondary material The Topic Is The Telephone & communication conventions past or present how it evolved In your examination of any of the above or similar topics, you should explore the implications of one or more philosophical/critical approaches reflected such as Collaboration and the social construction of meaning/ knowledge Gender issues History/Rhetoric of Science Ethical, Legal, and Power Issues (economics) Genre & Document Design Conventions Research Methods Usability / Online Environments Visual Theory and Practice (interface design, video communication)