Perceptions and Practices: A Survey of Professional Engineers and Architects

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Importance of job-related writing rank order 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.
—Writing correspondence (letters, e-mail, faxes)
—Writing meeting minutes
—Writing technical reports
—Writing management reports
—Writing proposals
—Writing manuals
—Editing other people’s writing