Madison ENG3450

 There seems to be a temporal research gap in my topic, Gender Bias in Technical Communication. The sources I found were from the 1990s and 2000s, indicating that updated research is needed. Due to this, there's also a gap in the consideration of technology. The internet has changed, and so have general societal values. These new values pose an opportunity to research how gender bias has continued and if attempts to remedy bias have proven effective. 

 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...