Mary McMullen is the Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator for Longview Community College. Mary McMullen-Light discusses technical writing and the writing assignment. She explained the importance and the value of writing in the engineering fields. Writing is actually building toward your professional competence as an engineer. Improving writing skills is very important in the engineering major because most of the professional engineering is really touting writing and communication as primary skills. Students need to improve their writing skills during their study time because that will help them in the future to have a good knowledge about writing technical reports, lab reports, or E-mail. It is also very important task for engineering