Technical Writing for English Majors: Discourse Education for the Information Age.

Tebeaux, Elizabeth

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ERIC Number: EJ416330

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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Technical Writing for English Majors: Discourse Education for the Information Age.

Tebeaux, Elizabeth

Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v17 n3 p197-208 Oct 1990

Explores the need for technical writing instruction for English majors. Reports that English majors entering M.B.A. programs felt unprepared for technical writing and business communication. Argues that technical writing instruction would broaden preservice English teachers' discourse education and their knowledge of the kinds of writing people do after college. (SG)

Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, English Curriculum, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Preservice Teacher Education, Technical Writing, Writing Attitudes, Writing Instruction, Writing Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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