This guide offers students suggestions on keeping a journal in which they record what they do, think, and feel. The guide examines the purposes of keeping a journal; discusses writing to a correspondent who will respond to the journal entries; shows how to express thoughts and feelings about events instead of just reporting on the events; offers…

The primary purpose of this manual is to provide a guide to the procedures and techniques to be used in creating an index to minutes. It contains instructions for setting up the index in card form, for determining subject headings, for selecting index card entries, for utilizing the index in card form or converting it to page form, and for…

Supporting performance objective 72 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on taking and preparing minutes of meetings are included in this packet. (The packet is the third in a set of four on performing stenographic activities--CE 016…

This booklet is intended for use as reading material for the social studies unit, The Aleuts of the Eighteenth Century. Excerpts from journals of seven 18th-century explorers or travelers describe the inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands. The accounts have been translated from original notes kept by members of the Russian navy, ship commanders, a…

Intended for use in teaching a senior high school writing course, this curriculum guide uses career related activities to help students clarify their career goals, practice some common adult writing experiences, and, in general, prepare for the future. Four areas from "real life" experiences are included and may be used separately as…

Intended as a practical guide for parents, counselors, and teachers, this book contains basic principles and techniques to guide children in journal-keeping. The book is fully illustrated with examples from children's journals. The exercises are designed for use with very young children (preschool and kindergarten) as well as with elementary and…

Since the position of the educational office employee is unique, there has been little formal education available other than the basic office skills. It has been necessary, therefore, for employees to learn on the job and to provide their own specialized training. This specialized training has been met by office personnel through the National…