Describes recent changes at Michigan Technological University from a heavily literature oriented freshman program to one that develops writing skills, especially technical and business English skills. (RB)

Describes a cooperative program involving the English and business communication faculty at a community college that was designed to improve the writing skills of nontraditional students. Includes a questionnaire used to gather suggestions for appropriate business writing assignments and approaches that might be used in all writing classes. (FL)

A program for improving documentation at the systems division at Allen-Bradley is sketched in this paper. Following introductory material about starting the program, the paper outlines the two main projects that were involved: (1) a management study of the Allen-Bradley manual writing process, which addressed problems with the content and…

Eighty-nine conference papers are presented in 10 sections: (1) language and cultural factors in conducting international business (qualifications for success as an international manager, staffing of international departments, role of second language proficiency, and international management concepts); (2) interdisciplinary language and business…