Technical Communication Quarterly Mar 1993

The road not taken: Frank Aydelotte and the thought approach to engineering writing

Michael G. Moran University of Georgia

Abstract

Frank Aydelotte's English and Engineering (1917) is one of the first anthologies in technical communication. Developed at MIT, this book attempted to broaden the education of undergraduate engineering students by using the tenets of the thought movement. This movement, which Aydelotte first articulated while directing Indiana University's first‐year English program, modified for universities in the United States the education that he had received at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Rather than emphasizing matters of form and correctness, the thought approach required engineering students to think and write about issues important to their education and future careers.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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1993-03-01
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10.1080/10572259309364531
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