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Peer reviewedStent, Angela – Change, 1976
The establishment and role of the Writing Center at Harvard is described as a means of improving freshmen writing skills. Students receive personal consultation, attend a series of mini-courses, and participate in a series of lectures by faculty members from different departments about how to write for various disciplines. (LBH)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Descriptions, Descriptive Writing, Higher Education
Peer reviewedShear, Marie – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1987
Recounts the experience of writing a biographical profile in which the language used to describe a professional woman was unwittingly sexist and how this was corrected in successive revisions. (NKA)
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Business Communication, Descriptive Writing, Females
