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Re: Did TW degrees exist? Was:Is a tech writing degree best? Was:TECHWR-L in the News
Subject:Re: Did TW degrees exist? Was:Is a tech writing degree best? Was:TECHWR-L in the News From:""Renée L. LaPlume"" <rlaplume -at- RORKE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:07:52 -0600
At 11:27 AM 10/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I started over 10 years ago when there were no TW degrees.
Did you mean to say exactly this? I enrolled in a
master's in technical and scientific communication
degree program in the fall of 1986 (that would be 12
years ago), and I know there were other graduate and
undergraduate programs available at that time (maybe
not a lot, but they did exist).
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Renée L. LaPlume
Rorke Data, Inc. - Software Services Division
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