Extending the Work of Writing Stewardship

This chapter extends the concept of writing stewardship—the work of ensuring that organizations as a whole write well—to the role of project management in organizations that create and distribute content. Content management makes it possible for more people in an organization to write, but it does not mean that “writers”—those with expertise and/or formal training as professional communicators—are displaced. Rather, the writers’ job becomes focused on writing stewardship. This chapter explains how teachers might prepare students to do the work of writing stewardship by teaching key project management skills.