Discusses a method that reinforces and monitors "correct" writing and editing, reviews the rhetoric for "effective" writing, and demonstrates how specific technical writing tasks fit into an engineer's everyday writing. An example of a technical writing task used in sophomore engineering classes is included. (JN)

Provides a rationale and description for adapting the student contract to lower-division technical writing classes in the community college. A copy of the learning contract and evaluation forms are included. (HTH)

Suggests the use of driving directions to help two-year college students understand how the rhetorical principles learned in freshman composition apply to technical writing, and to render the concept of "technical writing" less threatening to the uninitiated students. (HTH)

Discusses a degree requirement of a Bachelor of Management Studies program at a New Zealand University: the writing of an investigative report for a company or government department. (AEA)

Recounts a senior technical writing student's disastrous graduation project, in which he was to assist a professor in the writing and editing of an article. (HTH)

Offers guidelines for statistical analysis to help determine the accuracy and appropriateness of statistics presented in a document. Provides example of commonly used techniques for manipulating statistics. (HTH)

Questions the effectiveness of mainstreaming and proficiency screening in helping students with severe mechanical problems. Proposes instead a separate remedial courses designed to follow the regular business communication course. (AEA)

Describes the how-to aspects of developing a meaningful manuscript and the publishing process for a journal article. (TA)

Student publications can be used in teaching editing and writing skills in technical writing courses. (RB)

Studies show that clearly written documents improve compliance and decrease litigation. Writing that considers the readers' need for clear communication will improve the relationship between the government and the public it serves. This handbook contends that the most important goals are to engage the reader, write clearly, and write in a visually…

This paper discusses why student writers have so much difficulty in writing job application letters that will produce the desired result. The letter should get the reader interested in the student as a possible employee enough to look over the student's resume and then interview him or her. According to the paper, most technical writing students…

Describes company's development of a Fundamental English'' of 800 words for use in service manuals, and the training given to non-English speaking employees in the use of the manuals. (SP)

Explores a rhetoric of science and technology and hales it as the only language connecting an international community, prompted by the failure of the humanities to create a functional rhetoric. (RB)