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A Snapshot of Employers’ Expectations of Graduates’ Skills and Abilities in Technical Communications

by Paula Rosinski

In a previous blog post, Julia Bleakney discussed some of the methods and documents that researchers have used to “capture employers’ expectations for the communication skills and abilities of college graduates in technical and engineering fields.” In this blog, I’ll…

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