Discusses a method that reinforces and monitors "correct" writing and editing, reviews the rhetoric for "effective" writing, and demonstrates how specific technical writing tasks fit into an engineer's everyday writing. An example of a technical writing task used in sophomore engineering classes is included. (JN)

Suggests the use of driving directions to help two-year college students understand how the rhetorical principles learned in freshman composition apply to technical writing, and to render the concept of "technical writing" less threatening to the uninitiated students. (HTH)

Discusses a degree requirement of a Bachelor of Management Studies program at a New Zealand University: the writing of an investigative report for a company or government department. (AEA)

After a 10-week physical training program for 11 motorically handicapped Dutch children, aged eight to l4, the experimental group (N=6) demonstrated a significant increase in physical efficiency and classroom attention scores. Follow-up showed that both groups' physical efficiency scores deteriorated and that experimentals' attention scores…

This study determined the maximal mean values for concentric and eccentric back-lift strength as well as isometric, and examined and compared the relationships between the mean peak voltage of the erectores spinae muscle(s) and maximal force exerted for the three types of muscle contractions. (RC)

The results of this study indicated that an endurance training program can be implemented effectively in an entire school system and that the change in fitness can be expected to be significant. (RC)

Reported are effects of an 8-week running program on the cardiorespiratory fitness of normal 10- to 12-year-old males. (GW)

Offers four suggestions for making composition instruction more useful to the student. (HOD)

Comparison of kinetic data indicated that spline functions were more effective than polynomials for modeling the data. (GW)

Describes a lesson designed to help children explore their fears and to discuss and write about them. (TO)

Implementation of physical education as suggested in this article is the means for achieving a healthy life for school children. (JH)

Creative writing helps children to develop the ability to think imaginatively and to express their ideas and feelings effectively and constructively. Properly motivated, it is an enjoyable acitivity that should be carried out more than once a year. (Author)