Writing and Computers

No longer confined to the printed page, today’s writers are in great demand for web pages, CD-ROMS, software manuals, training videos, and electronic brochures. Western majors get the skills - and the experience - that employers need.

Technical writing is one of the fastest growing careers world-wide. Technical writers get jobs in medical, scientific, technical, computer, manufacturing, and government industries. They write and produce web pages, online documentation, training manuals, product information literature, instruction manuals, technical reports, and corporate communications. 

Newspapers, magazines and journals, book companies, desktop publishing firms, law firms, and web page design companies are just a few of the places that editing and publishing majors find careers.

Besides becoming writers of novels, plays, and poetry, creative writers are in demand as freelance and travel writers, photojournalists, song writers, speech writers, translators, script writers, and teachers. 

Professional Writing is a useful major for those interested in law, medicine, public speaking, teaching, consulting, business and marketing, as well as for those who might pursue advanced degrees.