Perceptions and Practices: A Survey of Professional Engineers and Architects

Table 3

Importance of job-related reading activities question.

Please rank the following activites according to their importance in your work. Place a “1” next to the activity that is most important, a “2” next to the activity that is next most important, and so on. Remember, no two activities can have the same ranking.
—Reading correspondence (letters, e-mail, faxes)
—Reading meeting minutes
—Reading technical reports
—Reading management reports
—Reading proposals
—Reading manuals
—Evaluating documents