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[Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM>]

> >
> > Greetings:
> >
> > Where are schools that offer degrees in tech. writing?  Are they poly-tech
> > universities?  I have a generic degree in English (I didn't have much
> > choice of schools - I had to consider money, spouse - you know how it goes).
> > I wouldn't mind going back to school for more tech. writing training.  Is
> > there somewhere I can find out what schools offer tech. writing?
> >
> > Jennifer in Phoenix
> >

I have seen a list of schools with Technical Writing programs published by
STC, but whoever published just took the schools word for what constitutes
a technical writing degree. As a result, this list is glaringly inaccurate.
It lists, for example, University of Houston as a school with a technical
writing program. What the University of Houston has is called a Professional
Writing program. I beleive that it is in the school of business, and seems
to be heavily slanted towards proposal writing and that sort of thing. I am
not slighting proosal writing, but it is not, per se, technical writing, and it
is completely useless to me as a professional development type degree
(Masters).

I'm a little cheesed off at whoever wrote the thing because the availability
of continuing ed is one of the factors that influenced my decision to move
to Houston.

One of the student chapters (or students) should take this on as a research
topic. Where are the best places in the U.S. (on the continent? in the world?)
to get a Technical Writing degree? Master's? Doctoral? My nominees are Eastern
Washington University (my alma mater), University of Washington (School of
Engineering), Michigan Tech., and Bowling Green but that's only because I either
know them, or know of them through co-workers.

Any takers?

Regards, Steve.