Offers suggestions, based on own experience with a workshop focusing on graphics, in creating a technical communication workshop involving both the business and the academic community. (MM)

Describes how an English professor trained to become a technical writer for industry and the benefits of such training to all technical writing teachers. (AEA)

French university faculty experiences in supervising foreign students' doctoral thesis writing are transformed into suggestions for assisting students in foreign language technical writing tasks. These include: noting special needs in the course of the research; drawing on linguistic, rhetorical, and communication theory for help with composition;…

Discussed are communication considerations for instructors of undergraduate engineering courses designed to teach students to prepare written technical reports. Illustrated are the differences between "real life" technical writing and classroom writing. (SL)

The establishment and role of the Writing Center at Harvard is described as a means of improving freshmen writing skills. Students receive personal consultation, attend a series of mini-courses, and participate in a series of lectures by faculty members from different departments about how to write for various disciplines. (LBH)

When students study the discipline of statistics, a domain that can be remote and abstract for them, it is critical that they understand what the numbers mean and how those numbers help people arrive at decisions. This paper presents different approaches that help students learn how researchers actually work with statistics and shows how students…

A study investigated British Columbian English teachers' beliefs and values as factors in their willingness to implement a senior-secondary English course focusing on technical and professional communication, Technical and Professional Communications 12 (TPC12). Statistically significant differences at the .05 level of confidence were found…

This paper focuses on the writing process and young children, suggesting prewriting activities and discussing writing, revising, and publishing in the classroom. The paper also enumerates what children like, such as interesting topics, self-selection, listening to stories, reading their writing to peers or younger children, and special formats for…

A researcher examined the numbers of relative clauses and the percentages of subordinate clauses that relative clauses comprise in two sets of research reports (one set from the period 1893-1901 and the other from 1980) about spectroscopy from the "Physical Review." He analyzed some striking differences between the sets in patterns of…

As a substitute for the conventional term papers, this project was designed to help freshmen learn to pick and analyze a specific topic within a given subject field, to develop the ability to find printed source material and knowledgeable people in the subject, and to evaluate their source material objectively. (Author/SN)

Reproduced from Jista'', Journal of the Indian Scientific Translators Association, v1 n1 Mar 1972. (VM)

Quality control of scientific writing raises level of the student's subject choice, preparation, research, and the standard of the scientific journal publishing the paper. (IR)

Reports the methodology and results of a survey of professionals who write on the job to discern the problems they encounter. Indicates that fear and avoidance of the writing task, little or no advance planning, and an inability to organize content were at the root of their writing difficulties. (HTH)

Describes a survey designed to discover (1) why technical communications programs need advisory boards, (2) how to find members and keep them productive, and (3) how boards can mutually benefit both the academic and the business-world members. Includes the questionnaire and a bibliography of materials on advisory boards. (HTH)

Describes the design and implementation of a successful interdisciplinary course in technical writing developed for dental hygiene students at a community college. Offers background information about the college and the students' communication needs, the rationale for implementing an interdisciplinary approach, and a model adaptable for technical…