Functional Communication

NOTE - I was going to use another blog for this type of discussion but I decided to put everything here instead. I've moved the entries I made over there over here.

I've been thinking a great deal lately about the field of Technical Writing and I've come to the realization that it's not *technical* writing/communication that this field addresses, it's Functional Writing/Communication. Looking at both the connotation and denotation of each word, I found that they mean vastly different things. I don't know that I would say they are separate - my feeling is that technical writing is possibly a subcategory of functional writing.