ABSTRACT
Technical communication service courses are already being pushed to the limit on nearly all fronts. As Nagelhout (1999) noted, these courses may be the only experience that students have with writing after first-year composition. For students who have started their academic careers at community colleges or have tested out of first-year composition, the technical communication service course might be the only writing course taken at the university from which they graduate. This fact alone puts an increasing burden on the faculty and graduate assistants who commonly teach this course-suddenly they become accountable for a student's ability or inability to write to professional standards.
