Three methods of determining waste quantity for a new building are supplied, based on a study conducted at the Cambridge campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (MLF)

Years of planning and exhaustive studies have resulted in a striking example of vertical architecture at Louisiana State University's new Medical Center Educational Building. (Author)

Describes Nathaniel Hawthorne's typological interpretation of American history. (RB)

A classification system developed and used by the author indicates one logical way to approach the development of curriculum and materials for communication electronics. It is open-ended, so that new developments can be classified and added at the appropriate place of importance with respect to the total body of knowledge. (Author)

Well-formed objectives meet four major criteria. They contain a subject, a verb, given conditions, and standards. A discussion and outline of the taxonomy of career development includes instructional objectives which might assist career educators in discussing instructional and assessment problems with greater precision. (Author/MW)

Discusses the role of certain types of classifications in a modern automated environment. (Author/PF)

The correlation of syntactic form with discourse function has become a central research area in linguistic pragmatics and discourse analysis. Most studies have proceeded on a construction-by-construction basis, failing to note significant generalizations across sentence types. One significant exception identifies a set presuppositional…

After an extensive review of the literature on the theoretical underpinnings of humor in human interaction, a six-category typology of humor was developed and exemplified by examples from mass media comedy. Humor can first be divided into two major types: individual level humor or social level humor. These levels are then further divided into the…

The purpose of this study was to derive a reliable system for classifying the 1,425 responses of over 800 teacher education candidates to a survey regarding adjectives used to describe teacher characteristics. Previous research had indicated five major themes underlying the adjectives teacher candidates think their students will use in describing…

A grammar based on speech acts to be used by second language teachers, syllabus planners, and instructional materials writers is outlined. The grammar proposes only two basic categories of speech act: (1) those involving a negotiation between speaker and addressee, and (2) those designed by the speaker to give information to the addressee. The…

This paper is a progress report of the first phase of a project which essentially seeks to replicate previous studies using the successful/unsuccessful design in an attempt to: (1) corroborate the surface/deep structure conclusion which has become an essential component of an understanding of problem-solving; (2) examine more closely the nature of…

An inventory of academic programs offered for credit and leading to an academic award offered by Alabama's public senior institutions and branch campuses as of June 1, 1986, is presented. For each college and program, charts indicate program titles, levels of degrees offered, and accreditation status. Included are summary charts of degrees offered…