Perceptions and Practices: A Survey of Professional Engineers and Architects

Table 7

Importance of work-related writing/editing activities percentage responses.

Question	Very rarely	Rarely	Neutral	Often	Very often	Mean	Std. dev.	Responses
Correspondence	0.0	1.1	1.6	12.6	84.7	4.83	0.49	183
Meeting Minutes	10.5	18.6	22.7	31.4	16.9	3.29	1.24	172
Technical Reports	3.3	14.4	21.0	33.7	27.6	3.73	1.11	181
Management Reports	16.7	27.4	28.0	19.6	8.3	2.74	1.19	168
Proposals	7.5	15.6	22.5	28.9	25.4	3.49	1.24	173
Manuals	24.8	29.7	23.0	14.5	7.9	2.48	1.21	165
Editing	8.9	8.9	26.3	30.7	25.1	3.58	1.22	179