Career Opportunities for Teachers of Technical Writing: A Survey of Programs in Technical Communication
Abstract
In response to a mail survey of the career opportunities they offer teachers of technical writing, twenty-four programs that prepare students for careers as technical writers and editors indicated that their technical writing faculty enjoy about the same teaching loads, salaries, and chances for promotion and tenure as do equally qualified and experienced teachers of literature at their schools. The programs also indicated that they have a growing number of openings on their faculties for teachers of technical writing. Finally, the programs ranked and rated seventeen qualifications that might be offered by applicants for those positions; the most significant conclusion drawn from the rankings and ratings is that the programs look more favorably upon experience — both in teaching and in working as a technical writer or editor — than they do upon formal study of technical writing or the teaching of it.
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- Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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- 1978-07-01
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- 10.2190/cvxr-f7h7-cxmr-kcmy
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Allen (1993)Technical Communication Quarterly
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Anderson (1980)Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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