Research Article

Perceptions and Practices: A Survey of Professional Engineers and Architects

Table 1

Frequency of job-related reading/evaluating written communications questions.

Please respond to the following questions. Select the one response which most accurately reflects your answer. If the situation does not apply to you, select the response labeled “N/A”

Doing my job involves…Very RarelyRarelyNeutralOftenVery OftenN/A

Reading correspondence (letters, e-mail, faxes)
Reading meeting minutes
Reading technical reports
Reading management reports
Reading proposals
Reading manuals
Evaluating documents