ABSTRACT

The 2-year college is often overlooked in discussions of technical communication curriculum and pedagogy, primarily because it is still uncommon for a 2-year college to have a degree program in technical communication. In addition, 2-year colleges have historically prepared students for further education at 4-year colleges or granted terminal associate degrees, so the institutions were not perceived as supporting a mission that would include more than a course or two in technical communication. However, 2-year programs may become more common as students treat the boundaries between institutions of higher education as more fluid in these days when the physical geography of campuses matters less than access to electronic offerings.