Discusses the merits of doing institutional research with a business writing class and outlines the process for completing such a project. (AEA)

Illustrates how business communication courses fit into tertiary business studies programs generally and recounts the evolution of such courses at Nepean College of Advanced Education in Sydney, Australia. (AEA)

Describes the structure and content of a course in business and technical writing offered in the workplace. (AEA)

Discusses methods to lend more realism to the technical writing classroom: (1) role playing, in which a report is written for someone other than the teacher; (2) presenting proposals orally at a party; (3) presenting a problem for students to solve through research; and (4) creating an advertising poster on a topic students know little about to…

When confronted with the task of teaching a six- or eight-week in-house writing program for middle managers, consultants first need to adapt to their audience, choose appropriate material for the workshops, establish credibility, and conduct an audit of the organization. (HOD)

The author explores problems in technical writing, the editor's role, and the author-editor relationship. He presents a list of basic writing rules to help the technical writer achieve success. These involve subject matter, deadlines, purpose, topic sentences, arrangement, clarity, idea development, examples, vocabulary, reading level, and…

Examines several theoretical differences in spoken and written communication and presents a few specific forms that improve the quality of writing. (HOD)

Examines the popularity of technical writing courses, the qualifications for teaching technical writing, and the process of "retooling" an English teacher as a technical writing teacher. (RL)

Reports the findings of a survey of members of the American Business Communication Association on the administration policies, course requirements, grading criteria, and staffing of business communication courses in their schools. (HTH)

Argues in favor of including instruction in speaking skills in technical writing courses. Shows how to go about incorporating dialog skills into what is first and foremost a composition course. (RL)

A unit on publishing processes and production methods provides technical writing students with valuable information and suggests numerous writing assignments for the instructor. (RL)

Describes a college business education program designed for adults already in the work force. (FL)

Ratings of evaluation consultant and evaluation report were influenced by use of jargon and data but were generally unrelated to whether they were read by a lay or professional audiences. In contrast, extent of agreement with recommendations were related to audience type and rarely related to the style of the report. (Author/GK)

Writing samples for a pre-med biology class by ESL and native-speaking students are analyzed to investigate the nature of rhetorical connectedness and where the quality actually resides. It is argued that a text grammar should show such connections as predications of a special type. (Author/AMH)

Reports on a classroom study of technical writing students' sex role biases in relation to their abilities to empathize effectively and to be aware of an audience in specific, concrete terms. (RL)