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Mike Duncan – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2024
While Sada Harbarger is primarily known as the author of the first genre-based technical communication textbook, 1923's "English For Engineers," I argue through extensive archival materials that her innovative conferencing with engineering students and interdisciplinary writing efforts, rather, drove her interwar success at Ohio State.…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Interdisciplinary Approach, Writing (Composition)
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Kynell, Teresa – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1995
Evaluates Samuel Chandler Earle's 1911 presentation to the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Demonstrates Earle's role in the shift of technical writing courses that combined both the goals of an engineering curriculum with the real-world needs of the graduated engineer. Finds that Earle's "Tufts Experiment" provided…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Cooperation, Educational History, Engineering Education