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Suggests means for involving business and industry in the teaching of technical communications. Discusses mai…
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Chatterjee Suchindran Shiladitya, Technical Writing Curricula and Teaching Methods: A Review of the Literatur…
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Reviews some of the issues of technical writing instruction, need, sequence, and evaluation. Attempts a defin…
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Crick Randal Carter, A Technical Communication Procedure to Produce Attitude Change Through the Use of Scient…
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Reports results of a study that used a metric multidimensional scaling program to generate theoretically effe…
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Dixon Thomas Clifford, Communication and Perceived Performance in Organizations: A Network Analysis. Ph.D. Re…
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Analyzes organizational communication from psychological, sociological and social psychological perspectives.
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Duszynski Timothy Joseph, Writing Skills in Community College Vocational-Technical Programs: A Modified Delph…
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Identifies important writing skills for vocational-technical students. Survey respondents suggested that corr…
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Easom Roger D., A Study to Determine Essential Competencies for Technical Writing Students in the Two-Year Co…
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Identifies competencies deemed important for technical writing students in two-year colleges. Employer/gradua…
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Gasarch Pearl, The Design and Evaluation of a Course in Technical/Occupational Writing for Two-Year College S…
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Reports design and testing of a technical writing course for two-year college students who had finished Fresh…
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Geilker Neita Frohmuth, A Comparison of Professionals' Responses to Selected Errors of Usage and Items of Dis…
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Surveyed attorneys, engineers, personnel workers and English teachers to determine attitude to selected usage…
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Hamlin Donna Marie, Organizational Audits: An Investigation into the Use of Fractionation Scales to Measure C…
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Reports reliable results from the use of fractionation scaling to measure organizational communication. Inclu…
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Harkins Craig, The Multi-Image User: A Diffusion of Innovation investigation Into the Adoption and Use of Mul…
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Reports a study of multi-image communication. Surveys of professional communicators suggest that 1) adoption …
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Held Julie Ann Stusrud, Exploration of Cognitive Styles Among Skilled and Unskilled Writers in a Technical Wr…
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Discusses a study of cognitive styles among technical writing students. Learning styles, determined by the My…
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Herrington Anne Jeanette, Writing in Academic Settings: A Study of the Rhetorical Contexts for Writing in Two…
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Studied writing in a laboratory class and a process design class. Found that student and teachers perceived t…
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Hertz Vivienne Lucas, Cognitive-Field Implications for the Teaching of Technical Writing to Non-Traditional S…
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Reports development of technical writing instruction based on cognitive-field theory. Concludes that 1) use o…
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Hopkins Robert Morris, Popular Scientific Discourse: A Rhetorical Model for Teaching Writing and Reading. Ph.…
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Examines at the sentence, inter-sentence, and supra-sentence level structures that are common to popular scie…
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Howell James Dale, An Identification of the Competencies in English Needed by Vocational Students in the Comm…
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In a survey of administrators, vocational teachers, English teachers, and trade professionals, found that ver…
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Hull Leon ClintonJr., Beyond Readability: Measuring the Difficulty of Technical Writing. Ph.D. Rensselaer Pol…
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Proposes and offers statistical validation for a revised readability formula. The formula has several advanta…
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Ilfeld Ellen Margaret, Designing a Master of Arts Program in Professional Writing for Employed Adults. A.D. T…
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Describes an alternative MA level professional writing program designed for employed adults. Discusses teachi…
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Jordan Mary Katherine, The Effects of Cooperative Peer Review on College Students Enrolled in Required Advanc…
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Reports effects of cooperative peer review on college students enrolled in required advanced technical writin…
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Kapitula Joanne Elizabeth, An Intertypical Strategy Study of Organizational Communication Structures. Ph.D. R…
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Finds support for the hypothesis that effectiveness in meeting an organization's goals is dependent on a comm…
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Kasperson Conrad John, An Exploratory Analysis of Information Use by Innovative, Productive, and Non-Producti…
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In a study of sixty scientists, found that innovative scientists exposed themselves more widely to subject ma…
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Kleid Naomi Ann, Factors Affecting the Usefulness of Flowcharts and Other Formats for Computer Programs. Ph.D…
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Compares three computer flowchart formats and assesses their usefulness in light of information, communicatio…
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Lewis Elaine Mary, An Effectiveness Measure for Visual Communication Media: Toward Definition of Visual Princ…
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Suggests that standards for the quality of visual media can be defined through mathematical modeling. Draws o…
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Lutz Jean Ann, A Study of Professional and Experienced Writers Revising and Editing at the Computer and with …
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Found that revisers and editors at a word processor work differently than those who work with pen and paper a…
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Miller Carolyn Rae, Environmental Impact Statements and Rhetorical Genres: An Application of Rhetorical Theor…
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Examines Environmental Impact Statements as rhetorical genre, finding that as a group they lack the coherence…
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Myers Mildred Sochatoff, Written Communication at the Managerial and Professional/Technical Levels: A Case St…
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Examines differences between writing done at managerial and technical/professional levels. Finds that manager…
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Nawarat Pariya, Differences Between Teaching Methods and Materials Used by English Teachers with Vocational a…
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Found that self-paced programmed texts were useful in teaching grammatical usage to vocational and non-vocati…
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Nicholas Susan Kehoe, A Video Observational Study of the Writing Process of College Students in a Non-Academi…
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Reports protocol study of students required to draft written solutions to non-academic situations. Found that…
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Odham Elizabeth Williams, Write it From this Angle: An Individualized Approach to Report-Writing Skills. Ed.D…
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Argues that the formal report is best taught to community college students via laboratory-centered instructio…
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Pavlisin Peggy Irene, Teaching Students to Revise and Proofread: An Experiment with Technical Writing Student…
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Found that students who received instruction in revision and were required to revise showed no improvement ov…
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Ragonnet James Lawrence, The Relationship Between Rhetorical and Scientific Discovery. Ph.D. Rensselaer Polyt…
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Argues that rhetorical and scientific discovery share common values, thoughts, and methods.
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Smith Leonara Harris, Revision Practices of Professional Writers. Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1983. DAI,…
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Found that writers' revision processes were multi-layered and recursive, progressively moving through an unde…
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Stalnaker Bonny Jean, A Study of the Influence of Audience and Purpose on the Composing Processes of Professi…
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Using protocol/text analysis, found that professional writers respond to audience as they accomplish their ow…
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Wilkins Keith Albert, A Conceptualized Role of Attitudes, Needs, and Environmental Stimuli in Human Responses…
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Criticizes three attitude change theories, suggesting that each could be improved by inclusion of components …
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Special Cable Tools
Cables/Cableways Instructional Design Series
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Review of Interactive Writing: Composing with a Word Processor, Technical Communication, in press.
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Testing Shipboard Cable Systems (1985)
Cables/Cableways Instructional Design Series
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A Beginner's Guide to Teaching Technical Writing: An Annotated Bibliography, (with Bill Birns), ERIC ED 245 2…
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Review of Business and Technical Writing Cookbook, Technical Communication, 30, No. 3, 1983.
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(1983)
Paper presented at the Southeastern Conference on English in the Two-Year College