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Winkler, Victoria M.; Mizuno, Jeanne L. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1985
Describes the four general categories of advanced technical writing courses: genre courses, general communication courses, rhetorical theory or history courses, and courses that use special pedagogical techniques or focus on a certain aspect of technical communication. Discusses implications for planning advanced courses. (HTH)
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Goldstein, Jone Rymer – Technical Writing Teacher, 1981
Argues in favor of including instruction in speaking skills in technical writing courses. Shows how to go about incorporating dialog skills into what is first and foremost a composition course. (RL)
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Needs, Higher Education, Speech Communication
Walzer, Arthur E. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1981
Proposes that technical writing teachers ask their students to analyze the ethos--the revelation of a writer's character through the rhetorical choices a writer makes--of the profession they are preparing to enter. Provides examples of such analysis. (RL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Higher Education
Peer reviewedTebeaux, Elizabeth – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Notes studies defining important communication skills for a wide range of job categories, but which many courses in business, technical, and science writing are not providing. Suggests changes for the basic business communication course, including modes of writing and rhetorical principles. (HTH)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
Download full textMathes, J. C., Comp.; Pinelli, Thomas E., Comp. – 1981
The 34 papers in this volume discuss a variety of technical writing topics. The following are some of these topics: (1) definitions and historical analyses of technical writing; (2) using case studies in technical writing classes; (3) advice to beginning teachers on how to teach graphics in technical communication classes; (4) preparing for an…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Foreign Students, Graphic Arts
Mathes, J. C., Comp.; Pinelli, Thomas E., Comp. – 1981
The 42 papers in this volume discuss a variety of technical writing topics. The following are some of these topics: (1) industry's views on new directions in technical communication, and the technical writing skills that industry needs; (2) an interdisciplinary approach to teaching technical report writing in the community college; (3) designing…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Higher Education
Peer reviewedAllen, Orphia Jane – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1986
Explains how findings from L. Flower and J.A. Hayes's research into experienced writers' composing processes can be used to teach writing in general and the resume in particular by helping students focus on the audience, their own persona or voice, the content or meaning they wish to convey, and the format for conveying it. (EL)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Course Content, Education Work Relationship
