Describes the practical and persuasive functions of technical writing in business; outlines the tasks of the technical editor as they relate to direct communication and accuracy. (MAI)

Discusses the causes of student attrition in technical report writing classes; stresses the need to develop the service aspects of such courses. (MAI)

Describes the historical development, organization, and operation of a resource center of materials on technical communication. (MAI)

Eighty graduate students and faculty estimated the correlation coefficient for each of 13 computer-printed scatterplots. As predicted, subjects underestimated the degree of actual correlation. With substantial moderation by a method-of-presentation factor, this underestimation was most pronounced in the middle of the correlational range.…

The importance of measuring the size of an effect for fixed effects factorial analysis of variance designs is emphasized. Technical issues in such measurement are considered and examples are provided. (Author/JKS)

Questions a national commission asks about matters that relate to the concerns of the child. (Author/MLF)

Suggestions are made on effective presentations by evaluators of research studies to audiences who are not statisticians. Examples of effective presentation methods are given: analogies in presenting statistics; graphs or pictorial presentations; summaries to highlight findings; concise reports based on a television newscast style; and judicial…

A method is proposed for overcoming the problem of multicollinearity in multiple regression equations where multiplicative independent terms are entered. The method is not a ridge regression solution. (JKS)

The effect of missing individuals upon the stability of the partition hierarchy yielded by the complete-link clustering technique was investigated. Empirical distributions of indices measuring the goodness-of-fit between partition hierarchies based on full and reduced sets of objects were obtained for data sets in which individuals were missing.…

Outlines procedures for procuring and evaluating actual annual reports for business communication classes. (RL)

There are two complementary approaches to conjoint measurement: axiomatic and numerical. In this article, synthetic data are used to examine how well axiomatic and conjoint measurement methods, individually and comparatively, recover parameters from data with three dimensions. (JKS)

Presents an eight-component weekly report form which media specialists may use for reporting library media center activities to the school administration. (CMV)

Reports the conclusions reached by participants at a symposium on the licensing of child welfare services. (CM)

One hundred seventy-eight papers are abstracted which were submitted to the Paper Distribution Center by speakers at the annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. The abstracts are arranged under headings which correspond to sponsers listed in the program. (Author/SA)

Presents a paper that relates human behaviors, such as pleasure, pain, learning, and speech to specific anatomical areas of the brain. (MLH)