At Penn State, teachers of technical writing courses often conduct service
learning projects in conjunction with the Leonhard Center Technical Writing
Initiative (LCTWI). The LCTWI is run by grad students in the English department
who find local businesses and organizations that need technical writing work
done, and then set them up with tech writing instructors. In the past, students
have prepared pamphlets for University Health Services, manuals for
environmental organizations, sewing instructions for 4-H group projects, and so
on.

The website for the Leonhard Center is http://www.eec.psu.edu/lc/, but unforunately there isn't much information on the technical writing component. If you'd
like, I can give you the contact information for the director, Jodie Nicotra.

Jordynn Jack
Graduate Scholar/Teaching Assistant
English Department
Pennsylvania State University

On Tue, 7 May 2002 20:53:39, Linda Schofield wrote:

> Thank you so much everyone for your feedback. This has been very helpful.
>
> Could I ask, Graham, about institutions you know of in the US where the
> field work we've been discussing takes place? I ask because university
> websites often don't provide enough detailed information for me to know
> whether or not this kind of research is being done in undergraduate courses.
> In fact, now that I think about it, though many of our instructors
> (particularly in International Business Communication) have field-work-based
> assignments, you would never know it looking at the course description
> in the calendar.
>
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