Presents guidelines for teaching grammar and business communication theory and principles in a basic course in business-letter writing. (KS)

Presents outlines and objectives of two inservice, eight-week seminars on effective writing and oral presentation designed for an engineering firm. (AEA)

Describes a letter-writing project designed to teach students that style, voice, and connotation affect the nature and force of written communication in the business world. (AEA)

Discusses requirements in a business communication course that force students to become responsible for correct spelling. (AEA)

A distinction is made between legal research instruction and instruction in the art of drafting legal papers. The need for the latter is outlined, and efforts to implement such a course at the Indiana University School of Law are described. Available from University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843. (MSE)

Describes a course in which students learn to write rich, accurate, precise, objective description, develop a sensitivity to honest, uninflated language, and demonstrate these skills by producing an action proposal. Describes the three sections of the course: objective description, lessons in language, and grand proposals. (PRA)

At New Mexico State University, technical communication teachers have developed a course to teach editing processes to graduate students who take the advanced workshop in technical and professional communication. In this seminar group, students work on writing processes; editing processes; written, edited, and tested products; and oral processes…

Describes a course required for Mayo Medical School students that includes a self-instructional test on 15 common writing faults, a minithesis, and a clinical laboratory research project prepared as a paper submissible to a scientific journal and critiqued by professional editors. (JT)

In this paper, two magazine courses offered at Colorado State University as part of the Technical-Business Journalism concentration are described in terms of course content, class assignments, and course objectives. The course entitled "Writing for Specialized Audiences" assumes that the majority of magazines published today are edited for readers…

Describes a technical writing course that meets the needs of students in English and the sciences. (RB)

"Engineering Report Writing," a required course in the Civil Engineering Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, combines both pragmatic and innovative assignments that teach the techniques of technical writing. Course design and success are discussed. (LBH)

Reports the results of a series of long-range studies that demonstrate that participants in short courses improve their communication skills as much as students enrolled in semester-long college classes. (AEA)

Articles extolling service-learning's benefits and discussing ways to use the pedagogy in the form of projects with organizations in the community are on the rise in the fields of composition and business/technical writing. One educator's classroom experiences with service-learning have shown students make important educational gains in such…