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Masse, Roger E. – 1983
At New Mexico State University, technical communication teachers have developed a course to teach editing processes to graduate students who take the advanced workshop in technical and professional communication. In this seminar group, students work on writing processes; editing processes; written, edited, and tested products; and oral processes…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Editing, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedElliot, Norbert; Kilduff, Margaret – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1991
Surveys perceptions of technical writing held by department heads at a technological university regarding: (1) content, instruction, and assessment of a technical writing course; and (2) writing products and processes. Calls for writing program administrators to study the institutional context for courses and programs in technical writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Course Content, Department Heads, Higher Education
Pytlik, Betty P. – 1984
The organizational report and letter writing course at Ohio University (Athens) is an advanced composition course designed to help students who expect to do such writing in their future jobs, but for whom technical writing and business communication courses are either inappropriate or insufficient. Students work in groups of four, investigating a…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Education Work Relationship
Allen, O. Jane – 1982
The process-oriented advanced technical writing course described in this paper leads students progressively through the writing and editing processes while involving them in the technical writing of their respective disciplines. The readings, exercises, and report assignments used in the course are discussed to show how these activities awaken…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Assignments, Classroom Techniques, College English
Download full textMathes, J. C., Comp.; Pinelli, Thomas E., Comp. – 1981
The 34 papers in this volume discuss a variety of technical writing topics. The following are some of these topics: (1) definitions and historical analyses of technical writing; (2) using case studies in technical writing classes; (3) advice to beginning teachers on how to teach graphics in technical communication classes; (4) preparing for an…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Foreign Students, Graphic Arts
Peer reviewedPenrose, John – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1986
The Association for Business Communication Graduate Studies Committee presents a curriculum based on a survey of recent Masters of Business Administration recipients. A general bibliography and sample syllabus are included. (SRT)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research
Mathes, J. C., Comp.; Pinelli, Thomas E., Comp. – 1981
The 42 papers in this volume discuss a variety of technical writing topics. The following are some of these topics: (1) industry's views on new directions in technical communication, and the technical writing skills that industry needs; (2) an interdisciplinary approach to teaching technical report writing in the community college; (3) designing…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Higher Education
Desjardins, Linda A. – 1987
Since engineering graduates and other technical students are frequently expected to document their projects as well as present such material orally, a Speech and Technical Writing course was designed at a New Hampshire college to prepare students for both technical writing tasks and oral presentations of their material. The course provides an…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Content, Documentation, Engineering Education
Bishop, Wendy – 1987
A process oriented technical writing course was devised at the University of Alaska to counteract the "forms" approach and to include peer critiques and student participation in class grading. Modifications to the standard syllabus included (1) student analyses of their own writing processes through literacy autobiographies, (2) student…
Descriptors: Business English, Course Content, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation
Murdock, Phil, Comp. – 1984
Compiled from responses to a survey of 36 universities offering doctorates in rhetoric, composition, language, or technical communication, and updated using research and dissertation indexes and bibliographies, this bibliography summarizes doctoral research in technical communication since 1975. The 35 titles deal with a variety of topics,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Style, Communication Research, Course Content
