Dayton Daily News: Wright State center to bridge engineering-English ‘gap’ for companies

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Companies like Miamisburg’s O’Neil & Associates Inc. need employees who can bridge the gap that sometimes exists between engineers and those whose specialty is communication.

Technical writing needs to be more than technical. It needs to be clear. That’s where the “O’Neil Center for Research Communication” — set to open at Wright State University Sept. 19 — comes in.

Headed by Brandy Foster — who majored in English as a WSU undergrad but today is a lecturer in Wright State’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering — the center will offer writing, editing and communication services for engineering firms and other clients.

Read the article from the Dayton Daily News.