Re: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

["Robert Plamondon" <robert -at- plamondon -dot- com>]

>Good one! I heard another gem last week, when an exasperated student in my
>Calculus class asked the inevitable, "When am I EVER going to use this in
>the real world?!?"

>My Calculus teacher just smiled and admitted that it was a hoop one had to
>jump through to get the degree. She closed with this great line: "College
>is not a test of knowledge; it's a test of endurance."

Sigh. Jump through the hoops, honk the horn, clap your flippers, and get a
fish. How motivational.

I always found education to be really useful, but it's amazing how many
instructors don't see it that way.

But I digress.  We were talking about technical writing.

So I'll ask the group: What single course proved to be most useful in your
technical writing work? For me, it was a course in Technical Illustration,
which gave me a lot of skills I never would have picked up any other way.

	-- Robert

Robert Plamondon
President, High-Tech Technical Writing
robert -at- plamondon -dot- com
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