Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
Fall 1-31-2014
Degree Name
Master of Science in Professional and Technical Communication - (M.S.)
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Nancy Coppola
Second Advisor
Bernadette C. Longo
Third Advisor
Norbert Elliot
Abstract
This paper explores evaluation of graduate student preparedness for work in technical communication and emerging professionalization standards by way of an alumni survey. This paper argues that these core competencies can be evaluated and aligned and provides an example confirming both the New Jersey Institute of Technology Masters of Science in Professional and Technical Communication (NJIT MS-PTC) and the Society of Technical Communication (STC) Body of Knowledge (BOK) and core competencies used in STC certification. The study was conducted through the month of October 2013 and queried alumni of the NJIT MS-PTC program. This paper seeks to suggest a method to map core competencies of any university program to professionalization standards and contributes to the debate on student preparedness and program evaluation.
Recommended Citation
Newsham, Faye, "Mapping ms-ptc programmatic core competencies to emerging professionalization standards: are our students fully prepared?" (2014). Theses. 188.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/188
