Faculty receive requests for recommendations from their students every year. They want to support their students as they apply for internships, full time jobs, and graduate school, but often struggle with how to do this in an efficient and effective manner. This is especially challenging given the number of students they have and the late and…

The authors discuss how to write an effective, persuasive letter to an elected official. They encourage business communications instructors to promote letter writing to their students as a means of political activism. (CH)

Notes that high school counselors may be called upon to write letters supporting student applications to local community scholarship organizations. For those counselors asked to write such letters of recommendation to these groups, a number of suggestions are offered and discussed. (NB)

Argues for the adoption of guidelines for letters to the editor and includes a model policy with suggestions concerning such items as length, content, appropriate staff responses, and style considerations. (TJ)

Discusses importance of the cover letter that accompanies mailed resume to introduce job candidate and his/her background to potential employer. Presents some guidelines that career planning and placement personnel can use in explaining the whys and hows of cover letters to students. Four steps to a good cover letter are given and examples of…

Supporting performance objective 73 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 transcribing shorthand dictation are included in this packet. (The packet is the second in a set of four on performing stenographic activities--CE 016…

Supporting performance objective 74 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on transcribing from recorded media are included in this packet. (The packet is the first in a set of four on performing stenographic activities--CE 016 974-976.)…

Supporting performance objective 71 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on composing correspondence are included in this packet. (The packet is the fourth in a set of four on performing stenographic activities--CE 016 973-976.) The…

This course is for the student who plans a limited use of his typewriting skills. Personal applications combine various aspects of typing, emphasizing skills necessary for college study or personal correspondence. The course deals with memorandums, postal cards, announcements, manuscripts, reports, personal business letters, envelopes, two letter…

Reviews changes brought about in the librarian recruitment process by recent legislation, discusses job descriptions and types of search techniques for locating qualified candidates, presents a series of guidelines for interviewing employment candidates, and outlines processes for corresponding with applicants and keeping records of the…

Focusing on courses in typewriting, this guide is one of a set of four articulation guides designed for articulating between secondary and postsecondary business education courses. (The other three guides focus on courses in accounting, shorthand, and office procedures.) Each guide presents a general course description, outlines of the major units…

The junior high student will type postcards, personal announcements, memorandums, personal notes, personal business letters, envelopes; and learn the parts of letters, letter styles, folding of letters, punctuation rules, proofreading, and erasing in this course. The student will also learn to compose at the typewriter. A prerequisite to this…

Strategies for finding a job internship, especially those particular to Kalamazoo College, are described in this handbook. After an introduction discussing the benefits of a liberal arts education, the benefits to employers and students of cooperative education and internships are discussed. Details of Kalamazoo College's internship program are…

Intended to help international business people create business documents of style and substance for correspondents in many different cultures (correspondents whose second or even third language is English), this guide is extremely useful for the millions who travel internationally, work abroad, and correspond with business people in other…

Focusing on writing as a complex process, this packet was prepared to assist teachers in planning daily writing activities which combine thinking processes, mechanical skills, and composition skills. Following an introduction which contains suggestions for ways teachers can help students to write, the first section of the publication provides…