Describes the Service Manual Project developed by the author to teach his Technical Writing II class to interact with professional literature in a more sophisticated and useful manner. Once technical students begin looking at printed matter they work with day in and day out, they begin analyzing it and seeing it in a different light. They realize…

Use of a computer-assisted program to teach analysis of professional drug literature was compared with the traditional manual evaluation methods. Used for both practice and examinations, the computer-assisted method was found to be relatively simple, self-contained, and preferable.

Discusses a variation of sentence combining exercises that involves separating whole paragraphs into sentences and fragments and asking writing students to put the constituents back together. (AEA)

Discusses an introductory lecture that defines the similarities between sales letters and application letters for business communication students. (AEA)

Discusses the fundamentals of communication in general and suggests that business communication educators teach not only business writing techniques but also the fundamentals of communication, and that they work to gain academic legitimacy. (AEA)

Presents outlines and objectives of two inservice, eight-week seminars on effective writing and oral presentation designed for an engineering firm. (AEA)

Offers resources on technical writing published in 1981. Arranges the citations under the following categories: bibliographies, books, reviews, and articles on the profession; theory and philosophy; pedagogy; technical speech; research; designing degree programs; technical writing and the computer; writing technical articles and reports;…

Describes a letter-writing project designed to teach students that style, voice, and connotation affect the nature and force of written communication in the business world. (AEA)

Discusses requirements in a business communication course that force students to become responsible for correct spelling. (AEA)

Outlines an assignment in which students write grant proposals to learn how writing is used in the "real world." (FL)

Principals from a large public school system recommended actions they would take after reading a conventional program evaluation report. Another group of principals made recommendations after reading a "confidence interval" report. Results indicated that the reporting form did influence decisions about a program's worth. (PP)

Reports on a study of eight corporations to assess the nature of writing done on the job, and how important writing ability was to the employee's career. Results indicated that communication ability was important to their jobs, but most employees loathed writing and considered quality writing beyond their grasp. (HTH)

Describes the organization and the benefit of using the team-teaching approach in a technical writing course for chemical engineering students. (RL)