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Subject:Re: Who can't write? From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 16 Aug 1994 16:11:04 -0700
Vicki Rosenzweig said:
> I think a large part of the problem is that an engineering degree
> has so many required courses in the major that the students have
> little time for anything else that doesn't fit a distribution
> requirement. This means, in most cases, that the only writing
> course they'll take is freshman comp, if that's required. I've
I took one writing course in college, and that's it. That's NOT where
I learned to write. (Though I'm not an engineer, either; my training
is primarily in linguistics.)
