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1.2 (p.9) Statistics about Writing in the Workplace.

In the book Writing in Nonacademic Settings (Guilford Press, New York, 1985), editors Lee Odell and Dixie Goswani share the results of their research about writing in the workplace. The image below is a chart from their book (p. 18) that shows how much time 300 survey respondents spend writing.

Time Spent Writing


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Time Spent Writing


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Odell and Goswani also asked the same respondents how important writing is in their jobs. Below is the chart of the responses (p. 19).

Importance of Writing


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