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Re: difference between tech writing and instructional design?
Subject:Re: difference between tech writing and instructional design? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- lynx -dot- dac -dot- neu -dot- edu> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:42:33 -0500
>What do you all think the difference is between technical writing and
>instructional design? I'm a tech writing major, doing my concentration in
>Instructional Technologies, which focuses on instructional design, but I
>haven't learned anything new in my concentration. It's mostly a recap of
>what I've learned in my tech writing classes, (only with much less detail).
>