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Eric Dunn, responding to my irreverent anecdote comparing teaching
engineers to write to teaching pigs to sing ("It only frustrates you
and annoys the pig."), wondered: <<Not sure if I should take offence.
;)>>
Oh, not you, Eric. You're a _good_ engineer. <gdrlh> But note to those
who see only the quoted part of my original message but not the full
context: I was being explicitly irreverent. As a scan of the archives
will reveal, I've often noted that engineers are just like writers in
one important way: some of them can be taught to write, and others
can't.
Eric continued: <<Actually, I'm a graduate of the engineering program
at Concordia University in Montreal. Every engineering student had to
take a one semester technical writing course... You might want to check
the program at Concordia for ideas and materials.>>
For that matter, try a Web search; many (most?) engineering schools
have similar course requirements, so I'll bet you there are curricula
freely available on the Web. A Google search on "engineering technical
writing curriculum" turned up half a million hits. I'm sure you could
narrow that down quickly enough by a more judicious choice of keywords.
The first page of hits alone provides several promising leads.
--Geoff Hart ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
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