Major in English

Colorado_mom
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:21:21 +0000

“With email the dominate form of corporate communications- one needs to know how to write a clear concise email…”

True. But being an English major may not help a lot there. For better or for worse, many corporate communications include more bullets/charts/etc than well developed paragraphs.

Back in the 1980s at my engineering school I took at “Technical Communications” concentration. It was a rare thing then (we were just learning how to use a student-developed word processsor), but perhaps it is more common now.

The TC minor was very useful and actually opened the door with the employer I still have now, 27 years later. I especially liked the “Business Writing” class, with an assignment for writing your own resume. Getting a B minus on your own resume really gets you in gear!