Reviews the literature in order to discover how organizational communication authors have defined the subject. (FL)

Describes a communication course in technical writing which is being offered for undergraduate engineering students at Arizona State University. (HM)

A method for adapting a technical writing course to the needs of students from a variety of majors is summarized. (HTH)

Summarizes a project that resulted in an experimental, multimedia, mastery learning course entitled "Writing for Industry." (MKM)

Reports the results of a study that compared teacher rankings of seven business letters written by students. (RL)

Developments within scientific institutions are improving writing education of science students. Perhaps the greater need now is to tap the available resources within the scientific community for improving the science education of journalism students. (Author/RE)

Presents a guide, intended as a handout, to help students and business researchers with basic citation forms when they need to cite electronic reference sources in their writing. Presents guidelines for both American Psychological Association and Modern Language Association styles. (SR)

Compares revisions of the same chapter from a computer manual, one revision by a group using conventional revision techniques and another revision by a group using concept mapping. Finds that revision time was not significantly different between groups, nor were an editor's ratings, but that readers' comprehension was significantly higher with the…

Surveys a national sample of users and non-users of corporate style guides. Finds that corporate style guides are an economical quality tool that benefits both the user and the corporation because they generate consistency in documents, create a professional look in documents, and save time in generating documents. (TB)

The distribution of technical and substantive structural equation modeling (SEM) articles published in psychological journals from 1987 to 1994 was studied through inspection of more than 1,050 abstracts in the "PsycLIT" system. There has been a clear increase in the number of journals and the number of substantive SEM articles. (SLD)

Presents a framework--grounded in the classic rhetorical concept of "ethos"--for technical communicators to examine the unique characteristics of the World Wide Web and the audiences it serves. Suggests that technical and marketing communicators can use the idea of online "ethos" to evaluate existing Web sites and design new…

Examines how various groups at Far West, a professional school, interpret the implementation of a two-way video and audio videoteleducation (VTE) distance learning system. Analyzes why different groups interpreted the technology in fundamentally different ways. Creates a model that examines the effects that dominant organizational groups'…

Describes the "Capture Lab"--a computer-supported conference room designed to capture the thought processes, plans, and decisions of business teams. Discusses how groups have used this environment for collaborative writing. Shares observations of how users respond to the technology and how they learn to use the room. (RS)

Applies rhetorical theory to newsletters produced by two political-activist organizations. Illustrates applications of schema theory, social construction, and theories about audience to newsletters with sample passages. (KEH)

Examines in-house documentation situations in which software manual writers and project managers intersect the manual writing project with ongoing organizational dynamics. Analyses two strategies that in-house writers need for project management: conducting contextual audience analyses and acting as liaisons in their workplaces. (KEH)