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Bankston, Dorothy H. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1975
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Sims, Barbara B. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1975
Descriptors: Class Activities, Higher Education, Student Participation, Teaching Methods
Ashdown, Paul G. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1975
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Newsletters
Johnson, Pamela R. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1990
Describes an assignment in which students write employee handbooks, outlining employee rights and responsibilities. Notes that this assignment integrates many concepts taught in a technical writing course, including informative writing, graphics, and readability. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Employee Responsibility, Guides, Higher Education
Minor, Dennis E. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1975
Describes a technical writing course that meets the needs of students in English and the sciences. (RB)
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Johnson, Pamela R. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1991
Extends a previous article which describes an assignment (integrating many concepts taught in a technical writing course) in which students write an employee handbook. Describes the employment-at-will doctrine and discusses some recent legal cases surrounding employee handbooks. Offers exercises on defining audience, classifying and partitioning,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Court Litigation, Employee Responsibility, Guides
Dragga, Sam – Technical Writing Teacher, 1991
Proposes rejection of the traditional complex classification of correspondence (letter of inquiry, claim letter, adjustment letter) and the adoption of a simplified system of classification (direct versus indirect communication), addressing the genuine complexity of a specific rhetorical situations. Offers teaching suggestions involving…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Business Correspondence, Business English, Class Activities
Bishop, Wendy – Technical Writing Teacher, 1989
Describes how technical writing teachers, by using a system of peer critiques, self evaluation, and portfolio grading, can use process activities (student literacy autobiographies, interviews with professional writers, and writing peer groups) to extend the range of activities in technical writing courses. (MM)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Class Activities, Grading, Higher Education
