Engineering students who take advantage of the opportunities to learn these writing skills during their academic education will prepare themselves for leadership positions in industry. The foundation of communication is knowledge ideas, solutions, discoveries, invention, technique, design but its impact, or non-impact, is in its organization and language. Your engineering education may train you to be a wonderful problem solver, but unless you can communicate your ideas and solutions effectively, you might as well not bother. Writing Across the Curriculum will help you develop those essential communication skills you ll use everyday. My communication skills, both verbal and written, have been the most important asset of my career.
Communication boils down to effectively dealing with people.
Once you record something on transferable media and deliver it, you never know where that communication will go. And to someone who has never met you, you are identified with that communication. Everyone will experience moments in their career when their written or spoken word will be remembered and act as an enabler or an obstruction. My writing training began in high school with several excellent English teachers and a mother who insisted on well thought out ideas and organization, proper use of words, and correct syntax. An hour or two of editing usually led to a polished product.