The restricted time allocated to courses and the immediate need to read literature in English necessitates the teaching of selective reading in many English as a foreign language contexts. This paper reports on one element of an expeditious (quick, effective, efficient and selective) reading course for learners in an English for Academic Purposes…

Pedagogical and scholarly representations of collaborative writing and knowledge construction in technical communication have traditionally recognized consensus as the logical outcome of collaborative work, even as scholars and teachers have acknowledged the value of conflict and "dissensus" in the process of collaborative knowledge…

As Chinese characters ("hanzi") have three aspects--as a technical writing system, an aesthetic visual art (Chinese calligraphy), and a highly-charged cultural symbolic system--changing them is a complex process. In the 1950s when language planning campaigns were launched to modernise Chinese through "hanzi" standardisation,…

Writing and publishing a research paper in a peer-reviewed journal is a complicated process. This paper tries to take some of the mystery out of that process by describing how a good research paper should be structured, and how the journal submission process works.

Intended as a series of hands-on, step-by-step lessons, this book presents instructions, checklists, exercises, and examples to guide people who work in business, industry, science or government through all phases of manual preparation from planning to research to writing, all the way to getting the final piece printed. The first chapter shows how…

A study was conducted to determine the technical writing style that scientists prefer. The respondents--l089 scientists from agricultural experiment stations, 20 station editors, and 59 editors of scientific publications--completed a questionnaire requesting biographic information and reactions to a simplified style of writing and a difficult…

To determine whether scientists and science students would accept a simplified writing style, two studies were conducted. In the first study, respondents--1,089 scientists from agricultural experiment stations, 20 station editors, and 59 editors of scientific journals--answered a questionnaire requesting biographical information and reactions to a…

Designed to assist beginning technical writing teachers with little or no training in the discipline, this annotated bibliography is limited to material available in the Nashville, Tennessee, area and primarily to material published since 1970. The first section contains articles from periodicals and selections from books on (1) the…

There has been a suspicion among college English teachers that the writing skills of engineering and science students deteriorate between the time they complete Freshman English and the time they graduate. To test the validity of this hypothesis, 5 groups comprising 361 subjects (72 freshmen, 70 sophomores, 71 juniors, 74 seniors, and 74 technical…

Proposes studies in the area of technical writing for the purpose of improving instructional materials. (RB)