English for Technical Use

Conferences With the Engineers: The Innovative Pedagogy and Career of Sada Harbarger, 1884–1942

“…Her second textbook with McGraw-Hill, 1938's English for Students In Applied Sciences, aimed at freshmen, is co-authored with Hildreth, W.R. Dumble, and Bert Emsley, and like the first, it stresses the study of literature and rhetoric (Harbarger et al, 1938a). 27 Connors notes this book "bombed" (1982, p. 344), perhaps based on its single edition and tepid reviews (Lowe, 1940;J.R.S., 1939) but the full reasons are worth teasing out. Fountain's 1938 survey notes that 23 of 93 engineering/science "English" courses surveyed did not use a primary textbook, with The Engineer's Manual of English (Sypherd and Brown, 1933;Sypherd et al, 1943) used in 18 28 ; only 3, Ohio State, Alabama, and Nebraska, used Harbarger's primarily (pp.…”