Engagement: Research Brainstorm

I think for me personally, the questions that come up for writing for a living were mostly associated with Brandt’s article. It became evident to me that there is more writing that goes on behind the scenes is the business world than credit is given for. I feel as though sometimes the numbers in the business world are over valued and all the writing that goes into making these numbers useful is undermined. A possible research question I would like to ask would be, what sort of training does it take to make an employee into a proficient writer as today’s school curriculum’s tend to be highly based on math and science. I think that interviews would be helpful as first hand accounts would be incredibly descriptive. Observations would also be useful as they would allow me to make inferences about training operations my self. And finally, textual analysis would allow me to pin point specific procedures and how they affect each company/