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

Describes a year long course developed at Michigan State University by the English and science departments to develop the writing abilities of science students. (SL)

Provides descriptions of courses offered at various colleges in the following areas: (1) improvement of technical communication; (2) technology and technical communication; (3) technical communication of scientific material; and (4) media for technical communication. Offers these descriptions as a means for creating technical writing assignments.…

Describes the content and use of Scientific Writing for Graduate Students: A Manual on the Teaching of Scientific Writing" prepared by the Committee on Graduate Training in Scientific Writing of the Council of Biology Editors. (AL)

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)

Outlines a basic writing skills course and provides statistics drawn from an existing course at San Diego State University concerning students' performance in the areas of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. (FL)

Presents the history of a graduate course on the teaching of technical communication, its content, goals and achievements. (RL)

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,…

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

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

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…

Describes an upper level rhetorical theory course for Scientific and Technical Communication majors (developed and taught by the author) that is grounded in Aristotle's "On Rhetoric" and in his understanding that effective communication is a systematic "tekhne"/art. Describes how the course uses Aristotle's work as a…