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203260 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.203260 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2026 212 pages Doctoral Dissertation Academic theses en Hedquist, Amber Nicole Hannah, Mark Long, Elenore Mara, Andrew Arizona State University Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2026 Field of study: English Collaboration is central to technical and professional communication (TPC), yet the field lacks a clear account of the resources that support collaborative work across academic, workplace, and community contexts. This dissertation responds by developing the Collaborative Resource Catalog, a systematic overview of the collaborative resources that appear in TPC scholarship and the purposes they serve. Through an integrative literature review of 385 peer-reviewed articles, I identified 915 resources and coded them through an iterative, grounded process. The catalog documents twelve resource types and five primary purposes with thirty-three secondary purposes that illustrate how collaborators use resources to support their work. Based on these findings, I characterize resource use in TPC as variable. Variability names the pairing of resource types with purposes in context and highlights how collaborators decide what a resource should do and how it should function within situated needs and commitments. To explain how communicators engage in this work, the dissertation introduces shepherding, a practice with four moves that guide resource use and protect collaborative commitments: anticipatory judgment, configuration and translation, relational tending, and holistic documentation. Together, the Collaborative Resource Catalog, variability, and shepherding clarify TPC’s collaborative expertise and support more transparent and reflective teaching and practice. technical communication rhetoric and composition Communication Collaboration Interdisciplinary Resources technical communication Toolkit A Compass for Collaboration: Building a Catalog of Collaborative Resources in Technical and Professional Communication