and the wind blew and the snow snowed

However, as fictionalized accounts with the persuasive goal of claiming territory and power, these mainstream disciplinary histories are inherently incomplete: “we tend to avoid unseemliness when telling familial stories” (Ianetta and Fredal, p. 186). Indeed, while the story of technical communication as a historically interdisciplinary field smoothes over our “persistent disagreements” about the “knowledge domain” of technical communication (Savage, p. 21), technical communication has not always functioned “interdisciplinarily”.