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Pytlik, Betty P. – 1984
The organizational report and letter writing course at Ohio University (Athens) is an advanced composition course designed to help students who expect to do such writing in their future jobs, but for whom technical writing and business communication courses are either inappropriate or insufficient. Students work in groups of four, investigating a…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Education Work Relationship
Moran, Michael G., Ed.; Journet, Debra, Ed. – 1985
The essays in this volume enunciate the pressing need for a theoretical framework for the study of technical communication. The first part of the volume provides an overview of extensive ways to study technical communication. Subsequent chapters discuss humanistic approaches to technical communication, the history of technical communication,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Communication Research
Download full textRubenstein, Albert H.; And Others – 1975
Research in the field of "information-seeking behavior of scientists and engineers" has been done on the behavior and preferences of researchers with respect to technical literature, computer-based information systems, and other scientific and technical information (STI) systems and services. The objectives of this project are: (1) to…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Engineers, Experiments, Information Seeking
Kantrovich, Jerald M. – 1978
A one semester high school industrial English course emphasizes the reading, writing, and speaking skills that relate to improved performance and understanding of vocational concepts. The course, particularly valuable for students who do not plan to attend college, is built around 15 units, which are varied according to student needs. The units…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business English, Career Planning, Course Descriptions
Morrill, Paul H., Ed; Hertz, Vivienne V., Ed. – 1977
The material collected in this workshop report offers teaching techniques for technical writing instructors at universities and junior colleges. The variety of topics indicates both the broad impact of technical writing and the many specific needs of technical writers. The workshop's discussions and papers focused on a variety of needs and…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Expository Writing, Higher Education
New Educational Directions, Crawfordsville, IN. – 1977
Based on reviews of the final performance and evaluation reports of 81 career education projects funded by the U.S. Office of Education during 1976, this comprehensive report seeks to identify ways of making future evaluation efforts in this area more fruitful. The introduction consists of definitions of key terms and a clarification of the source…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Powell, Joyce – 1981
Currently two-year colleges are faced with the challenge of developing and implementing programs of technical communications that will serve the wide range of needs of the vocational-technical student. Cedar Valley College (Texas) responded to this challenge by developing a communications course for the developmental student. The course has four…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Consumer Education, Developmental Programs, Interpersonal Relationship
Brickell, Henry M.; Aslanian, Carol B. – 1979
Based on the evaluators' experience with a large-scale curriculum development project, this manual is designed to aid those who plan and implement field tests of educational products (instructional procedures and materials) in natural school settings. Within the procedures discussed, problems likely to arise are described. The steps in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Barrett, Joseph E. – 1978
A model designed to aid faculty in course development and revision is presented and discussed as it operates at the Community College of Philadelphia. Several guiding principles of instructional development are presented, stressing the importance of a positive approach and the view of instructional development as a mode of communication between…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development
Roberts, Sarah – 1978
This staff development module is part of one of three groups of career guidance modules developed, field-tested, and revised by a six-state consortium coordinated by the American Institutes for Research. This module is the twevlth in a series on developing a comprehensive career guidance program at the high school level, designed to aid guidance…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Communication Skills, Counselors
Loh, Shiu-Chang; And Others – Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bulletin, 1978
A practical machine translation system called CULT (Chinese University Language Translator), capable of translating Chinese mathematical texts into readable English, has been developed during the period 1969-1977 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Programs for the system are written in Standard FORTRAN and run on the ICL1904A computer system.…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Chinese, Computational Linguistics
Kern, Richard P.; And Others – 1975
Written as an aid for writers of Army narrative training literature, this guidebook emphasizes performance-oriented writing (preparation of literature intended to help someone learn and perform job related tasks). The eight chapters contain extensive examples and illustrations. An introductory chapter discusses why and how the guidebook was…
Descriptors: Audiences, Editing, Guidelines, Guides
Skelton, Terry – 1978
In view of the need for technical communications training in vocational curricula in two-year colleges, a study was made to determine instructional need among graduates of such training now in the workplace. The study sought answers to the following four questions: what sort of communication tasks are assigned to middle level employees; do these…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Career Education, College Graduates, Communication Skills
Southeastern Education Lab., Atlanta, GA. – 1970
"A Preschool Training Program" is Volume 6 in a series of 7 guides prepared by the Southeastern Education Laboratory to assist rural school districts, especially in the Southern States, in writing acceptable Title III proposals under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The document presents a planning proposal which was funded, along with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods
Brandt, William J. – 1970
This book has been written for those who would improve their reading of prose argumentation through practice in analyzing essays, speeches, and learned articles. Part I, "Structural Rhetoric," sets forth the structural relationship of the parts of an argument. Part II, "Textural Rhetoric," describes alterations in the interior organization of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Content Area Reading, Expository Writing, Figurative Language
