(11:37 PM)
Ask Slashdot: Teaching Engineers to Write?
Slashdot: Teaching Engineers to Write?. interesting responses: present writing as an engineering problem, and general writing prompts are inappropriate for engineers. the first is probably half a joke and half serious; it is both funny and a good idea. the second is an issue I may have with writing (it would be one among many).
also suggested in the comments is this book, On Writing Well, which I have and at one point enjoyed; it's kind of snarky and funny, but makes good points. I actually taped an excerpt up at my school once, a kind of anonymous-information-nerd-vandalism that was more nerd than vandalism. (for the record, it was page 44 of an edition published in 1980, on word usage. on the interweb.)
