Alka Rani Harriger
Thomas I. Ho
Abstract
To be a successful business data processing professional, one should possess effective written and oral communication skills; therefore, any program which prepares computing students for the business world should effectively train them in this area. Of the programs that attempt to handle this situation, most merely require their students to take several English/communication courses. From experience, this method is less effective than additionally reinforcing the students' communication skills within the entire range of the computing curriculum. This paper presents a methodology for accomplishing the task of implementing writing into an introductory data processing course.
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- A data processing communication skills course
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Edward Baker James
Many computing curricula acknowledge the importance of writing skills by including a separate course on “communications.” The authors point out that students may write good English on such a course and still fail to apply techniques learned to their mainstream computing reports. This paper describes how to integrate training in communication more effectively with the actual preparation of reports required in the computing section of the syllabus.
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