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>> Wouldn't you agree that the whole school is oriented
>> toward technical rather than literary?
>Yes and no. Of course there's going to be a technical
>spin on all humanities at RPI and other tech schools.
>But, they certainly do not underemphasize grammar,
>literature, and rhetoric. In fact, the emphasis is on
>these literary elements, with a focus toward
>technology.
I'm not saying they undermine the humanities...I'm just saying that many
technical writers have a certain mentality. That mentality is conducive to
the engineering thought process. I'll bet if a writer went to MIT, CIT,
Stanford, schools with a strong technical "air", and took a curriculum
strong on writing, they'd make better technical writers than a student who
goes to a school that doesn't have that direction.
Of course, there are exception to everything, and this is no different, so I
expect "I went to the University of Miami and majored in surfboarding and
I'm a gud writr"....
>RPI gets about 95% of its grant money from sci/tech
>institutions, and that money goes to fund specific
>sci/tech research by a limited segment of the college.
>Follow the money and you'll understand why RPI markets
>itself the way it does.
Are they tech-oriented because they get funding...or do they get funding
BECAUSE they're tech-oriented?
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