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Subject:Re: Project Management Skills and Tech Writing. From:Jeffrey Pittman <Jpittman49 -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 31 Aug 1995 02:41:09 -0400
In a message dated 95-08-30 22:05:06 EDT, racepa -at- WHQPOS4B -dot- DAYTONOH -dot- ATTGIS -dot- COM
(Race, Paul D) writes:
>Ability to manage projects is acquired by necessity as a survival skill.
Techwhirlers:
This statement seems to have a commonality for all of us. Possibly
those of us with academic contracts or connections should start campainging
for the addition of a project management course to be incorporated into
existing technical writing programs. The instructor could assign a new
research paper every day or so, and the student would thereby get used to
prioritizing their writing time.
Just a thought,
J.P.
