Abstract
If you browse in college bookstores or technical libraries and look at related categories in Books in Print, you will find hundreds of publications addressing various aspects of technical writing. Are so many really necessary? Apparently publishers think so or they would not spend their time, resources, and money to produce them. And industrial supervisors certainly agree that many of their employees are weak in written and oral communication skills. This is evidenced by the number of articles in the Journal of Chemical Education and Journal of College Science Teaching and the many symposia about writing. Are those of us in academia failing in our responsibility to prepare our graduates for all areas of their professional life? Are we placing too great an emphasis on development of scientific knowledge and skills at the expense of not giving enough importance to communicating that information? These questions usually generate the following responses from colleagues everywhere: Our students ...
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