Perceptions and Practices: A Survey of Professional Engineers and Architects

Table 2

Work-related reading or evaluating written communication materials percentage responses.

Question	Very rarely	Rarely	Neutral	Often	Very often	Mean	Std. dev.	Responses
Correspondence	0.6	0.0	1.7	9.9	87.8	4.86	0.48	181
Meeting minutes	5.6	14.0	16.3	36.0	28.1	3.68	1.19	178
Technical reports	1.6	3.3	13.2	42.3	39.6	4.14	0.91	182
Management reports	6.2	23.2	30.5	22.0	18.1	3.24	1.19	177
Proposals	2.8	11.0	14.9	35.9	35.4	3.90	1.10	181
Manuals	0.5	6.6	18.6	35.0	39.3	4.06	0.96	183
Evaluating documents	0.0	7.1	15.8	34.4	42.6	4.11	0.96	183