RE: Think outside the box - Re: A suspected can of worms

[DaLy <swiggles247 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

------ Mark Baker wrote:

"And the best qualifications for most of those jobs
are not degrees or diplomas in technical
communication."

------

Agreed! Following Mark's logic - if a person wants to
be a Technical Writer he/she should obtain a degree in
the field he/she wishes to write for. Further (again
following Mark's logic), a degree in Technical
Communications (for a Technical Writing position) is
useless in most areas, whereas an "Occupation-
Specific" degree (perhaps with a minor in English,
Journalism, Technical Communications, etc.) would be
the way to go.

Since my reply was to Ted's original post (i.e. A 
suspected can of worms), in which he wrote: -
"Recently a college mentioned she felt that tech
writing/comm programs belonged in the engineering
department. Just wondering what you all though about
this" 

The answer to his question is: A Technical
Writing/Communication program does not belong in the
Engineering department.

DaLy



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