Includes index and bibliographical references.

Contents: Part I: Revising industry and academia: cultures and relationships: Cultural impediments to understanding: are they surmountable? -- Jumping off the ivory tower: changing the academic perspective -- Researching a common ground: exploring the space where academic and workplace culture meet -- Keeping writing in its place: a participatory action approach to workplace communication -- Active-practice:creating productive tension between academia and industry -- Part II: Re-envisioning the profession: Becoming a profession -- Taking our stakeholders seriously: re-imagining the dissemination of research in information design -- Migrations: strategic thinking about the future(s) of technical communication -- Expanding roles for technical communicators -- Advancing a vision of usability -- Tales of brave ulysses.