Jones, N. N., Moore, K. R. & Walton, R. (2016). Disrupting the past to disrupt the future: an antenarrative of technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 25 (4), (pp. 211-229).

In Natasha N. Jones, Kristen R. Moore, and Rebecca Walton’s (2016) article “Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication,” they asserted that “specific, pragmatic actions are necessary to create effective change going forward” (p. 212). Jones, Moore, and Walton offered a framework for developing a focus point for technical and professional communication (TPC), interrogated the dominant narrative, presented a collection of nondominant stories that unraveled and reweaved TPC, the importance of user advocacy, the role of social justice, and researched the 3Ps of positionality, privilege, and power. Jones, Moore, and Walton’s purpose was to suggest that “social justice scholarship might provoke other now-silent (or silenced) scholars to develop research agendas that reach toward the goal of inclusion” (p. 223). Jones, Moore, and Walton’s intended audience was scholars and researchers of TPC seeking to better understand inclusion. Jones, Moore, and Walton began their article with full disclosure and ended by acknowledging that more research was needed, which granted them credibility and built trust with their audience.