AgComm teaching; Paper presented at the Agricultural History Symposium on Science and Technology in Agriculture; 1979; Kansas State University, Manhattan. Delmar Hatesohl Collection., Tracks the information sources used by early agricultural journalists, leading to a contemporary diffusion approach in which farm readers were no longer viewed as "collaborators in agricultural study." They "were to be consumers of information vended by experts." (p. 37)
Mugler, David J. (author), Posler, Gerry L. (author), and Professor, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University; Associate Dean, College of Agriculture, Kansas State University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1980-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00651
James F. Evans Collection, This study was designed to describe the amount and kind of writing recent College of Agricultural Sciences baccalaureate degree graduates complete on the job, their perceptions of the importance of on-the-job writing, and the graduates' level of satisfaction with their writing preparation at Penn State. A questionnaire was mailed to 309 recent College of Agricultural Sciences alumni and 48.4% responded. The majority of respondents were white males (23-26 years old), worked in agriculture-related jobs in Pennsylvania, and earned between $20,000 and $29,999 a year. Respondents wrote less than eight hours a week and wrote a variety of forms such as letters, memos, and reports to different audiences. Respondents felt that the ability to write well was important, and in general, were satisfied with their undergraduate writing courses. (author).
