Describes the need for vocational English in an organic curriculum for vocational education rather than a transplanted English curriculum. This curriculum should include improved reading and writing techniques and "Regeneration, a new third "R . Regeneration suggests a radical improvement in present courses of technical English or a replacement…

Nine observations on an article published in the September 1982 "ABCA Bulletin" deal with the quality of college-level technical writing programs and the competency of teachers involved in those programs. (AEA)

Offers a writing assignment in which students analyze the operations of a failing small business and make written recommendations on improving prospects. (AEA)

A survey of literature on legal writing from 1969 through 1980 covers 45 journal articles and ERIC documents on needs for prelaw and law-school curricula and paralegal training. Highly technical materials are included only when they shed light on general issues of legal language. (MSE)

Describes an assignment in which business writing students cooperated with their state senator to gain practical writing experience. (AEA)

It is argued that: (1) the language of teaching-effectiveness and teacher-competency research is promoting subtly a technical and political ideology; and (2) the efforts of this research activity serve to perpetuate a set of myths about the teaching experience. An alternative focus on the "unique person who teaches" is suggested for…

Provides a rationale for the workshop format in teaching technical writing. Discusses the benefits in areas such as motivation, audience awareness, and voice development and provides an outline for workshop sessions. Sessions include editing writing by others, writing a short paper, and group interaction. (HTH)

The standard organizational features of an essay (title, introduction, main body, and conclusion), together with their specific functions, constitute an established but neglected convention that enables students to write conventional essays and to appreciate the uses of variation in essay form. (HOD)

Contains annotations of 34 journal articles dealing with communication skills training programs for businesses. (HOD)

Describes work performed under the Spelling Error Detection Correction Project (SPEEDCOP) at Chemical Abstracts Service to devise effective automatic methods of detecting and correcting misspellings in scholarly and scientific text. The trigram analysis technique developed determined sites but not types of errors. Thirteen references are listed.…

Offers guidelines for class instruction in job search strategies, for researching the chosen occupation, interviewing, constructing the resume, and preparing the application package. (HTH)

Offers examples of appropriate and improper use of the passive voice in technical communications and gives suggestions for using these examples in technical writing classrooms. (RL)

Describes the writing of the formal technical report as a project for students in technical writing courses. Includes grading criteria for such a report. (HTH)

Surveys recent trends in the area of clear writing. Discusses the problem of incomprehensible language in functional writing (forms and documents). Considers solutions, particularly those developed by the Document Design Center. (PD)

Presents a more practical orientation for the composition classroom that would allow technical students to demonstrate and improve competency in the realm of technical employment while at the same time improving their written communication skills. (HTH)