Mapping ms-ptc programmatic core competencies to emerging professionalization standards: are our students fully prepared?

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Professional and Technical Communication - (M.S.)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Humanities

Year

2014

Author dc:creator

• Newsham, Faye

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nancy Coppola
• Bernadette C. Longo
• Norbert Elliot

• Emerging professionalization standards
• Core competencies
• Technical and Professional Writing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/188

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.njit.edu:theses-1187