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7 sources for research topic

 My research topic is how biases affect technical communication. I will probably narrow it down to something more specific, like gender bias. Examples of this would be using gendered language that assumes the reader is male and alienating the rest of the audience, or by depicting one gender in a harmful and offensive way.   The seven possible sources I have found are the following:   Shenk, Robert. “Gender Bias in Naval Fitness Reports? A Case Study on Gender and           Rhetorical Credibility.”   Sánchez, Fernando. “Trans Students’ Right to Their Own Gender in Professional           Communication Courses: A Textbook Analysis of Attire and Voice Standards in Oral Presentations.”  Gurak, Laura J., and Nancy L. Bayer. “Making Gender Visible: Extending Feminist           Critiques of Technology to Technical Communication.”   Lay, Mary M. “The Value of Gen...