Technical with a small `t´: technology and the technical communication major

A recent survey at Clarkson University showed that students consider technical communication the least worthy and the least difficult of the institution´s majors. This prejudice is attributed to the student´s high regard for technology and its quantitative, problem-solving analysis coupled with conversely low regard for writing. The author describes his experience with the misconceptions and how he came to understand that technical communication is not a contradiction in terms