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Peer reviewedEstrin, Herman A. – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Periodicals, Student Motivation, Technical Writing
Figgins, Ross – ABCA Bulletin, 1979
The author uses a hypothetical contest situation to generate student interest in collecting, evaluating, and organizing information. (RL)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Higher Education, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods
Brostoff, Anita – 1978
The communication skills center at Carnegie Mellon University helps individual students master the technical writing skills necessary for specific disciplines and professions. Through collaboration with the instructors in the various disciplines, the program operates both as a consulting service outside the center (devising and evaluating the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Higher Education, Individual Instruction, Individual Needs
Download full textWeaver, Laura H. – 1982
Using technical writing in the regular freshman composition course stimulates student interest by having the appeal of novelty and expands the horizons of students in the humanities and the pure and applied sciences. To begin the unit, one might stimulate interest in the content and style of technical writing of the past by using Robert M.…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Motivation Techniques
