Describes the development of a course in graphics and audiovisuals as they are applied in technical communication. Includes brief discussions of the course design, general course structure, course objectives, course content, student evaluation, and student reaction. Indicates that the course includes information on theory, graphics, audiovisuals,…

Compares course content and observable student qualities in both technical writing and business communication classes; presents some classroom-tested teaching techniques for the technical writing teacher. (MAI)

A bibliography of translator's tools, especially unilingual and multilingual dictionaries. (AM)

Describes a project done by a technical writing class in which a city council was persuaded to take action pertaining to the naming of streets. The project involved extensive research in several areas and a variety of technical writing assignments, and it used the expertise of students with a wide range of academic interests. (TJ)

The authors favor keeping technical writing instruction in the hands of engineering faculty. (Author/BB)

This technical communication course uses peer evaluation to give students a chance to both generate and receive real-life technical reports. (BB)

Guidelines are given for developing original computer programs into high quality software suitable for publication. (MP)

Urges business communication teachers to improve the standing of their subject area by broadening its theoretical base and by emphasizing how their courses offer training that is necessary and different from that offered by traditional communication skills courses. (RL)

Describes a twenty week one half-credit elective course for seniors on sending and receiving technical communications. (DD)

Presents a 30-month case study of how one business writer made decisions concerning audience. Suggests that audience theory does not adequately describe the cognitive and social decisions writers make in real-world professional contexts, with intrinsic internal factors such as writer's creditability, financial rewards, and promotions affecting…

Describes a class designed to make Hungarian students familiar with written genres in which abstracting plays an important role--students get theoretical background by abstracting lectures and analyzing appropriate chapters of technical writing textbooks, paying attention to objectivity and structure of the abstract. Advocates using such methods…

Presents two short articles addressing issues of document design: "The Rhetoric of Desktop Publishing: The Page versus the Screen" (Rebecca B. Worley); and "Typography 101" (Valerie J. Vance). (SR)

States that Crystal Eastman and Alice Hamilton, organizers of the Workers' Health Bureau, helped shape the early 20th-century health and safety communication field by targeting texts to professional and popular audiences which sought to prevent occupational accidents and disease by promoting voluntary efforts by employers, government regulation,…

Shows problems in the communication process between preparers and users of financial reports. Uses test techniques from linguistics and pedagogy (here, the cloze technique) to investigate two Swedish financial reports' understandability. Finds important parts of the reports were not understood by small investors. (PA)

States that teachers in business/technical writing classrooms are unsure of why they should internationalize their curriculum, despite increases in international business, in the number of workers employed by overseas businesses, and ethnically and culturally diverse populations within the United States. Provides a 33-item critical annotated…