Teaching Technical Writing to Foreign Students

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Apr 1973

Teaching Technical Writing to Foreign Students

Joan L. Pavelich

Abstract

Students are selected by a diagnostic essay. They begin simply, by completing job application forms, personal resumes, and letters of application, tasks which require concise expression of facts, which reveal much about the students' backgrounds, and which they must use to get a job. Then they move to the daily writing problems an engineer faces. In every class they also practice exercises that correct the many errors caused by the change from their native language into English.

Journal: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published: 1973-04-01
DOI: 10.2190/uhtg-p70t-2upt-lpb1
Topics: technical communication

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