Writing Shipyard Reports. Training Instructor's Guide
Abstract
This Training Instructor's Guide provides a framework for training instructors in U. S. Shipyards to use in preparing detailed lesson plans for an in-house course in report writing. It is designed for use with Writing Shipyard Reports. Together, these two resources have been prepared fur teaching report writing to shipyard professionals in response to the report, Curricular Needs of Shipyard Professionals." The Curricular Needs report presents the results of a survey of shipyard managers to identify curricular and training needs of graduate professionals in shipyards. Ten U. S. Shipyards participated in the survey, with a total employment of 1210 graduate professionals: 588 with engineering degrees, 201 with business administration and management degrees, and 421 with various other degrees. Participants in a report writing course should be very interested in the results of the Curricular Needs survey. It revealed that shipyard executives consider report writing skills as crucial for shipyard employees. These executives ranked technical/business writing as the most important college subject (4.9 on a scale of 5) more important than engineering science, mathematics, business, computer science, basic science, social sciences, and humanities subjects. Furthermore, they ranked technical/business writing second as a subject about which entry-level engineers lacked sufficient knowledge and skills (knowledge of production processes ranked first). This Guide and Writing Shipyard Reports will help you develop a course to improve the written communication skills of shipyard professionals. Discussion of the Curricular Needs of Shipyard Professionals report would make a good point of departure for such a course, especially one for recent college graduates. It should orient them to on-the-job needs and motivate them to take the course seriously.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA452330
Entities
People
- Dwight W. Stevenson
- J. C. Mathes
Organizations
- University of Michigan