Needed—A Good Basic Communication Course

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Jan 1971

Needed—A Good Basic Communication Course

W. A. Mambert

Abstract

It is tragically interesting that throughout the first twelve years of formal education in our society, the typical school curriculum does not contain a single course of study in idea handling and communication. In most college curricula, the art and techniques are confusingly taught and de-emphasized, largely because of specialization and professional parochialism. The net result is that our present system of personal development has produced a generation and a half of nonthinkers and noncopers. This paper argues that a proper synthesis of the skills of perception, inquiry, problem solving, and communication can be taught as such in a single course of study, preferably in high school or even before, but most certainly at least in college. The author describes a semester-length “idea-handling and communication core” course designed to supplant several traditional high-school and college courses, or for adult education.

Journal: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published: 1971-01-01
DOI: 10.2190/h27g-k1fx-f0g7-c150
Topics: curriculum design multimodality

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