Blog Post 3: Research Gaps
Having recently turned in my literature review, I will now turn to the relationship between technical drawings, diagrams, and illustrations and visual encyclopedias — a relationship not addressed by name. To be fair, there is much existing scholarship on technical, diagrams, and illustrations, given their importance clarifying and elucidating the anatomy, inner workings, and other aspects of various objects, items, and mechanisms. The techniques and visual rhetoric encoded in their usage is highly varied — cross-sections, cutaways, exploded-view drawings, and so on and so forth — and can be used to explain any subject matter that involves machinery, structures, or processeses (which is essentially all of them). Combined with increased demand for technical-communication deliverables and materials spurred by technological innovation (such as the Digital Revolution), and the modern landscape is awash in scholarship that not only analyzes, contextualizes, and discusses technical drawings, ...