Charged with organizing and editing of the Presidential Commission on Campus Unrest materials. Report editor gives basic writing guidelines to staff. (Editor)

Outlines a procedure for teaching business writing students to write concise and accurate survey questionnaires. (AEA)

Discusses a structure for the problem solving paper. Provides several sample outlines of a hypothetical problem and solution. (HTH)

Argues for including some literary style in technical writing. Examines literary devices that can be used in technical writing, such as metaphor, simile, climax, and alliteration, and provides guidelines for their effective use in professional communication. (HTH)

Recounts a literature instructor's successful entry into teaching technical writing. (HTH)

Establishes the need for report writing skills. Examines the report writing process, data collection methods, composition, and format. (SK)

Describes one English teacher's contribution as liaison between those learning to operate computers and the technical writing of the operating manuals for those computers. (HTH)

Laments the unnecessarily ponderous and difficult language and syntax that characterizes much technical writing. (HTH)

Describes two software routines developed for authors of Navy training materials. SCAT (Systems for Computer Automated Typesetting) automatically composes and formats text, merging it with stored graphics, while CRES (Computer Readability Editing System) aids in writing readable text at the desired level. A six-item bibliography and eight…

Describes a study testing the premise that an opening question in a letter eliminates excess words and increases the impact of the letter. (HTH)

Offers advice on structuring the college technical writing course. (RL)

Asserts that educational objectives in technical writing classes can and should be humanistic as well as utilitarian. (RL)

Discusses three implications for the structure of technical writing instruction from a discourse perspective. The implications are a "you-centered" writing development, a heuristic for perceiving and organizing experience in a technological society, and a pragmatic alternative to the traditional approach to composition instruction. (RL)

Discusses the role of the lexicographer in assisting the translator and the technical writer and in vocabulary control. (AM)