Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Apr 1983

Writing Workshops for Eligibility Examiners

Dennis M. Walsh

Abstract

The three technical writing workshops a colleague and I gave to Idaho eligibility examiners were especially challenging because of the discrepancy in education and writing ability within each group — as well as our own initial ignorance of what eligibility examiners do and write. The workshops gradually improved as we modified our material based on our increased knowledge of the examiners and their work, became increasingly problem oriented in our approach, and effectively implemented our inductive pedagogy.

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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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1983-04-01
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10.2190/5qch-yl25-yvyk-gp0m
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