INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / FEBRUARY 19, 1991

 

 

 

Faculty Development
Workshops

Series V (Spring 1991)
Community College Exchange

Program

April 4, 1200-1400, Room 1807
Instructional Media Services -
Guided Tours

March 28, 1200-1400, Room 3142
*Ethical Encounters for Col-
lege Personnel

February 21, 0900-1200, Room 1618
*Learner-Participant Retention
February 21, 1300-1600, Room 2203
*Learning Communities
February 22, 0900-1500, Room 2201
Integrated Neuro Systems
March 4, 0900-1200, Room 1630
Women’s Ways of Knowing
March 14, 0900-1200, Room 1618
Learning Styles

March 18, 1200-1500, Room 1622

“During Spring Breaks

Pre-registration is required - Call local
5122 for more information.

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The Write Stuff

I: the age of desktop publishing
and the word processor, the
workplace demands that writers
be more than wordsmiths, while
business people are expected to be
better writers.

In fact, the computer-driven
communications revolution is so
extensive it’s
no surprise the
new Print Fu-
tures program,
which opens
at Douglas Col-
lege next fall,
is attracting a
lot of atten-
tion. Coor-
dinator Roslyn
Dixon says the
program, uni-
que in the
Lower Main-
land, has al-
ready
generated “ex-
cellent
response”
from dozens of
students and
businesses.

Unlike media-oriented jour-
nalism programs or the academic
style of English courses, the
Douglas program is designed to
prepare students for professional
writing in the workplace. The
gamut runs from magazine
freelancing to corporate image
making using newsletters,
brochures and news releases.

“Ten years ago some people
predicted that with desk-top com-
puters we would read less, that
somehow the machine would
eliminate that step. In fact, we are
now producing 10 times as much
written material as we were 10
years ago,” says Dixon. “Now
there is a tendency to produce a lot
more print with the expectation of
a very ‘professional’ level of work.
The problem is that many people

 

have not developed the writing
skills needed to use that technol-

ogy.”

Dixon expects the program
will attract two types of student:
those who want to be writers in
the corporate or publishing
workplace and those who need
writing
skills in a
world of
reports,
proposals
and presen-
tations.

“Re-
search
shows that
as you go
up the
career lad-
der you
write more.
When
people are
first hired
they write
10 percent
of the time;
by the time
they reach a senior position it’s 90
percent,” says Dixon.

Stressing hands-on experience
and practical skills, the program
will teach people how to write,
how to work with graphic design
and desktop publishing and how
to proceed to the printing stage.
There will be courses in editing, re-
searching, interviewing, printing,
public relations writing, writing
technical manuals and ‘Writing for
the Organizational Culture’. There
will also be a creative component,
with elements such as script writ-
oF Dixon developed the program
with Creative Writing Instructor
Dale Zieroth.

Print Futures opens with
limited enrolment in September.
For more information call 527-
5465. Bf

 

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