Lists 23 two-year colleges that offer an associate degree or a certificate or both in technical communication. (FL)

An Australian perspective of the writing projects burgeoning in the United States. (RL)

Describes how adjunct courses can encourage students to see writing as a process of discovery and creation. (CRH)

Argues that courses in technical communication must have high status, be flexible, use distance learning techniques, and meet the needs of inservice communicators to satisfy demand for technical communicators in Europe. Suggests those courses concentrate on composition, text-handling, elicitation, and specialized technical areas. Suggests courses…

Describes the development and operation of the MIT Technical Writing Cooperative, a means of writing across the curriculum that has been used for more than 25 years. (FL)

Considers how the concept of psychology of composition suggests a different interpretation of what it means for composition to be an interdisciplinary field. Explores the character and significance for composition of "syntopical studies" and draws on syntopical reading of the psychological literature to lay the foundations for a possible…

Describes one inservice program in writing that produced a greater commitment to teaching on the part of the teachers involved. Discusses program elements that contributed to that commitment. (FL)

Offers a brief look at the history of freshman writing programs, examines the UCLA program in some detail, and comments on the state of such programs in general. (FL)

Describes an experiment at Montana State University in which 12 professors and four freshman composition students were trained to use the university's central computer as a word processor. Concludes that the computer can be a powerful revision aid for writing students. (FL)

Describes a model inservice program developed and implemented in the Bangor Township (Michigan) elementary schools, which was structured on the process approach to writing instruction. (FL)

Noting that the formal split between instruction in written and oral modes of communication is a relatively recent one, this paper presents arguments against that split--at both the secondary school and the college level--and arguments for instruction in communication. The paper offers a historically based definition of communication, positing…

Examines the problems that the document "English: From 5 to 16" poses the English teaching profession, particularly in trying to gauge how far it needs to be understood in the context of apparent moves toward a more centrally controlled curriculum. (DF)

Articles in these proceedings of a conference of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication represent the views of professional communicators and academicians who share a concern for providing breadth and quality of preparation for present and future technical communicators. The 10 papers discuss the following topics: (1)…

Invites colleagues in the "hard" sciences to embrace writing, reading, and thinking across the curriculum, and describes the use of "project" and "concept" composition assignments to that end in an organic chemistry course. (HTH)

Explains the importance of competence in standard American English in a developmental writing curriculum and reviews several theories of basic writing instruction. (EL)