Literary Specialists Unable to Handle Technical Writing

Title: Literary Specialists Unable to Handle Technical Writing; New Division has Nothing to Offer Writing Education
Type: Editorial
Creator: David Beer; Evan Carton
Date: 4 November 1992
Description: The Daily Texan presents side-by-side two opinion pieces on undergraduate writing instruction. Beer, who left the English department to coordinate technical communication for Engineering, asserts that literature professors are unwilling and unable to teach technical writing, and that departments that require technical writing deserve better.

Carton suggests the creation of the DRC was an empty public relations move that will not substantively improve first-year writing. To do so, he suggests, would involve a serious institutional commitment including an end to E 306 exemptions and higher writing standards outside of the English department.

Beer, David. "Literary Specialists Unable to Handle Technical Writing." _Daily Texan_ 4 November 1992.
Carton, Evan. "New Division has Nothing to Offer Writing Education." _Daily Texan_ 4 November 1992.
Publisher: Daily Texan

Item sets: First-Year Writing; Lecturers; Writing in the Disciplines; Department of Rhetoric and Writing