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<||>Don't shy away from teaching software tools. I suspect a lot of
<||>schools don't teach tools because (a) they are too cheap to pay
<||>for the licenses or (b) they are making a LOT of money teaching
<||>the tools at night to corporate Continuing Ed students.
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I see your point, but if we are talking about a new technical-writing
program being developed in an English department, consider (c) the
Powers that Be who can approve new courses are literature specialists
who are skeptical of the curriculum itself (in large measure because
they neither have nor want a clue what it is about) and see no place in
the English department for a course that focuses on anything as
practical as software tools. I was told such courses smacked of
"vocationalism."
Sarah Bane
"Been there, done that, students designed the T-shirt*, got tired of
fighting the department curriculum committee all by myself"
Day job: Documentation Specialist, SpectrumRetail Corporation
--Home of ProphetLine retail management systems--
sarah -dot- bane -at- spectrumretail -dot- com
Night job: Associate Instructor, Westark College (soon to be University
of Arkansas-Fort Smith)
sbane -at- pipeline -dot- westark -dot- edu
*My Professional Writing students did design a T-shirt one year. They
referred to themselves as "the few, the proud." If any happen to be
members of this list, I'd like them to know that working with them is by
far my most pleasant memory of my academic career.
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