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Subject:Re: Tech Writing Curriculum From:Tothscribe -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:40:34 EST
>Require every student to assemble a PC, install the OS [snip]
I think that students should have to write real-world, portfolio-ready documents for a variety of things. Set up the PC, write the software manual, document the medical procedure, draft the website (with Section 508 compliance), outline the "for dummies" guide, and any of a dozen other possible fields.
THEN switch the documents around to others in the class for usability testing. Because in the end, *that's* the acid test for our kind of writing.
Oh, and I agree about the rhetoric and logic courses. It blows my mind that I wasn't drilled on this stuff until grad school - IMO, this should be required starting in grade school! If nothing else, it would at least save us from the scourge of Internet correspondents who think "u r wrong. u suck. shut up." is a scathing, unanswerable defense.
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