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From: jlh@loral.UUCP (Physically Phffft)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: engineering students and verbal skills
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Date: 30 Jan 89 21:13:24 GMT
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>I heartily agree with this. The entire technical community has developed
>many bad writing habits. Since engineering schools do not teach students
>to write, students learn to write by subconsciously adapting to the
>style they read. That style is frequently abysmal. 

Hmmm, around here if you don't adapt your writing style to the one already
in use you lose "brownie points".  It doesn't make any difference if your
own style is better or worse (I thought mine was better), if it's different
it's automatically worse.  This policy is directly attributable to 1 man,
He Who Signs the Checks.


							Jim

		"I'm with George.  A thousand pints of Lite, please"

-- 
Jim Harkins		jlh@loral.cts.com
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego