Opening the Door to Cyberspace: Teaching Web Page Construction in the Classroom  

This article shows how to move students from paper-bound text to hypertext. We explain why the web is an important new communication medium--with numbers and testimony to substantiate our opinion; discuss techniques for teaching web-page construction--samples, HTML coding, and document design; show how traditional resumes, proposals, manuals, and newsletters can go online in the classroom, and examine the benefits of teaching online documentation, including instant gratification, new skills, and problem-solving opportunities.

Gerson, Steven M. and Sharon J. Gerson. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Education>Web Design

A Survey of Technical Writing Practitioners and Professors: Are We on the Same Page?   

Do technical writing professors teach what practitioners practice? Do practitioners practice what professors preach? We surveyed writers and teachers nationwide, asking each group to rate the importance of types of writing, writing skills, electronic communications, computer usage, and nonwriting topics, such as oral presentations and graphics. Teachers and writers agree that ethics, revision, and document design are important. However, writers focus on manuals, whereas professors teach reports and resumes. Writers emphasize grammar, punctuation, hypertext, and total quality management, whereas teachers emphasize passive voice and personalization. The two groups differ often and significantly.

Gerson, Sharon J. and Steven M. Gerson. STC Proceedings (1995). Articles>Education>Writing>Technical Writing