Title :
How to teach engineering students to become better writers
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
The author presents some ways in which engineering students can be encouraged to become effective communicators regardless of what has been said about engineers not being able to write. It is the responsibility of colleges of engineering, rather than English departments, to offer engineering majors instruction and practice in writing for the world of work
Keywords :
education; technical presentation; English departments; colleges of engineering; effective communicators; engineering students; Context; Decoding; Education; Educational institutions; Engineering students; Problem-solving; Professional communication; Solids; Vocabulary; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 1989. IPCC '89. 'Communicating to the World.', International
Conference_Location :
Garden City, NY
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.1989.102109