RE: Tech writing course in vo-tech curriculum

["Sarah Bane" <Sarah -dot- Bane -at- spectrumretail -dot- com>]

Sorry to belabor this, and I share everyone's disdain for the
dilettante, but rest assured that the vo-tech students who take the
technical writing course are not wannabe tech writers any more than the
students who take a typical freshman composition course are aspiring
journalists. I do think that the person proposing the course may need to
take a more realistic view of their needs--no online help, but plenty of
practice writing memos and instructions, perhaps.

<||>
<||>What kicked off the thought, though, was these same wannabe 
<||>techwriters
<||>expecting you to not only teach them about TW tools and 
<||>methods, but how to
<||>spell, punctuate, and in fact write a simple declarative 
<||>sentence.  What a
<||>world. :-)
<||>

Sarah Bane
sarah -dot- bane -at- spectrumretail -dot- com
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My
opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." --Flannery O'Connor

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