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Peer reviewedCunningham, Donald H.; Harris, Jeanette G. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1994
Provides survey results indicating the relative health of undergraduate writing programs in four-year universities. Reports a significant increase in undergraduate writing programs. However, technical and professional writing programs are not increasing as rapidly as a new broad-based program encompassing creative writing, composition, journalism,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Research, Higher Education, National Surveys
Download full textRainey, Bill G. – Journal of Business Communication, 1974
The purpose of this study was to obtain information on the attitudes held by corporate executives and college professors toward the importance of proposal writing ability. Based on a survey of executives and professors, an inspection of the literature on proposal writing, and informal conversations with business executives and former students, it…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Programs, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development
Direct linkLatterell, Catherine G. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2003
This article argues that the small school context has been a relatively unexamined or under-examined context for technical and professional communication program development. While graduate program development holds a large share of the field's attention in recent national forums, growth in graduate programs is a consequence of demand in the job…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Labor Market, Program Development, Communication Skills
Smith, Herb J. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2003
While research in international technical communication has flourished during the last 10 years, there has been little published on technical communication programs outside the United States. This article addresses this need by describing 12 representative academic technical communication programs in Germany, including Germany's first master's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions, International Education, College Programs
Pickett, Nell Ann; Angelo, Faye – 1985
To determine the status of the teaching of technical writing in two-year colleges, a survey was conducted of 1,202 two-year institutions in the 50 states. Questions concerned enrollment patterns, number of technical communication courses and teachers, number of years technical communication courses have been offered, prerequisites for courses…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, Course Content, Course Objectives
Fullen, Jim, Ed. – OATYC Journal, 1991
Published by the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges, the "OATYC Journal" is designed to provide a medium for sharing concepts, methods, and findings relevant to the classroom, and an open forum for the discussion and review of problems. This 16th volume of the journal, consisting of the fall 1990 and spring 1991 issues, contains the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Programs, College Role, Community Colleges
