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Jansen, Dorien; Petry, Katja; Ceulemans, Eva; Noens, Ilse; Baeyens, Dieter – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2017
Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience various functioning and participation problems in higher education, which may cause difficulties such as drop out or low grade point averages. However, it remains unclear how often and during which teaching and evaluation methods the functioning and participation problems occur and which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Walsh, Christopher S.; Townsin, Louise – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2015
The Millennium Project, an international participatory think tank that uses futures research to systematically explore, create and test both possible and desirable futures in order to improve decisions in the present, presents unprecedented challenges for Australian education. Their publication, 2015-16 State of the Future, outlines 15 global…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Intercultural Communication, Futures (of Society)
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Gibson, Walker – College Composition and Communication, 1979
States that teachers can help students overcome problems with clarity by showing them how to become more sensitive to the reader's ignorance of the writer's intentions; presents sample sentences from students' writing to illustrate writing problems that force the reader to examine the sentences a second time. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Communication Problems, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Wolford, Chester L. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1979
Suggests creating subtle but simple controversial issues and personalities for student assignments to help students consider the problem of audience in technical and business writing. (TJ)
Descriptors: Audiences, Communication Problems, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Sullivan, Patricia A. – Strategies, 1989
Coaches are provided with specific steps to close communication gaps between coach and athlete and prevent future communication problems. Included are several exercises that can be used to create an atmosphere in which both coach and athlete can practice effective communication skills. (IAH)
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletic Coaches, Communication Problems, High Schools
Sanders, Joseph Lee – College Press Review, 1978
Describes a simulated press conference designed to help students in a news writing class learn how to obtain factual information from an evasive interviewee. (GW)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Higher Education, Information Sources, Interviews
Sloan, Gary – Technical Writing Teacher, 1978
Describes techniques used to help technical writing students eliminate jargon, verbosity, syntactical intricacy, and overuse of the passive voice from their writing. (GW)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, English Instruction, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation
Douglas, George H. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1977
Cites examples of technical writing that demonstrate "cobblestone rhetoric" (the listing of hard, concrete ideas, all of which have the same weight and configuration) and outlines approaches for helping technical writers learn to use narrative flow and full interpretation of detail in their writing. (GW)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, English Instruction, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education
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Freedman, Aviva – English in Education, 1980
Describes the Writing Tutorial Service at Carleton University, Ottawa, which provides individual tutoring for students who want help with their writing. Outlines some of the teaching techniques used, showing how they vary according to the stage of the composing process at which tutors are required to intervene. (GT)
Descriptors: College Programs, Communication Problems, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Wager, Inez; Wager, Willis – Technical Writing Teacher, 1982
Examines the implicit, possibly unintentional, meanings embodied in some technical writing assignments. Discusses the conventions of plain technical writing, which underestimate its potential for communication. (HTH)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Measell, James S. – 1990
Expressing a communication perspective on teaching public relations, this booklet is designed for instructors of public relations courses. The introduction to the booklet establishes the theoretical grounding of this investigation, namely, the mutual relationship between public relations and communication. The first section explicates the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Descriptions
Brown, Francis J. – 1977
Communication within an organization can be defined according to the three directions in which communication flows: downward, upward, or horizontally. Business communication also includes external activities in which interaction is either one way to two ways. This paper describes the differences between one-way and two-way communication systems…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Higher Education
Brumback, Richard A. – Political Science Teacher, 1988
The problem of students entering universities and graduate programs with sub-standard communication skills is becoming more pronounced. Teaching communication skills is an important vehicle for enhancing student work. (BSR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Higher Education
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Golen, Steven; And Others – Journal of Business Communication, 1984
Analyzes communication barriers in teaching methods such as lectures, prepared and live case studies, experiential exercises, and computer simulations. Concludes that the most serious barriers were the instructors' and students' tendency not to listen, instructors' hostile attitudes, personality conflicts between instructors and students, and an…
Descriptors: Business Education, Classroom Communication, College Students, Communication Problems
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Meyers, G. Douglas – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1985
Points out how the work of Robert Zoellner helps students to achieve professional competence as speakers and writers. Discusses the "talk-write" model, which focuses on speaking and writing as behaviors and uses reinforcement to shape effective writing. (EL)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Problems, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education
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