Describes a course that gives students the kinds of writing and oral communication experiences they will need on the job. The course gives students information about effective speaking and teaches them how to write business letters, prepare simple visuals for written and oral reports, and write formal proposals. (EL)

Advocates emphasizing invention or substance of writing first, and suggests that peer evaluation will provide a necessary audience for student writers. (MKM)

Describes a writing assignment through which students build an understanding of perspectives other than their own. Shows how students, using dice, can create the outlines of a character and, having thought about this character, can write a paper from that character's perspective. (TB)

Argues that holistic scoring, widely used as a reliable method of rating student writing, can be used effectively as a teaching device. Having students evaluate other students' writing helps ease the teacher-student antagonism generated by the necessity of assigning grades and helps reinforce the connection between abstract idea of quality of…

Describes how two proficient teachers of physical education retrained to become proficient teachers of writing. Discusses the plan for retraining teachers; the connections between writing, tennis, and dance; revision; evaluation; and outcomes. (SR)

This booklet presents background information and a justification for this White House initiative on historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). On November 1, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12876 requiring for the first time that: (1) federal agencies set annual goals for the amount of funds to be awarded to HBCUs;…

Salaries for instructional faculty for 1984-1985 are reported, based on data on 2,915 colleges and universities that responded to the Higher Education General Information Survey. A narrative summary of survey findings indicates that full-time faculty salaries continued to increase faster than inflation through the 1984-1985 academic year.…

Explains a technique for teaching proofreading to basic writing students that calls forth their inner competence with language and causes them to attend to what is actually written in order to find and correct manuscript errors. (EL)

The abstracts included here are samples of the documents in the ERIC Junior College collection that deal with new instructional techniques such as behavioral objectives, learning contracts, and learning clusters. (Author/NHM)

This report on the financial status of Ontario (Canada) universities notes that Ontario's universities continue to receive less than universities in any other Canadian province in per capita funding and have had the largest two-year decline in public funding of any jurisdiction in Canada or the United States. It notes that although total operating…

Based on a survey conducted by the American Association of Junior Colleges (AAJC), this directory provides information on 1,038 community, junior, and technical colleges and two-year branch campuses in the United States and its territories, including data on 1968-69 enrollments, personnel, and student costs. Following material on the scope and…

Initial efforts to internationalize the curricula in two-year colleges in the Pacific Northwest were met with a number of barriers, including an unwillingness by four-year institutions to recognize the two-year college programs and implement revisions of their own programs, funding problems, and state-level skepticism of the need for international…

Claims that teaching writing in a computer-assisted classroom is often fraught with unforeseen and often unnecessary problems. Lists 10 commandments (and 9 helpful hints) for composition instructors using computer-assisted classrooms. (HB)

The authors explore how faculty-student epistemological congruency (EC) affects students' experiences and integration into the academic community. EC is defined as the level of similarity in beliefs about learning between a student and a faculty member. Because academic integration has been tied to retention, they investigated whether…

Advocates using audio cassette tapes for commenting on student writing. Maintains that taped comments are adaptable, effective, simple, and fast. Argues that taped comments can be focused on the writer, can respond to the writing, and can develop the writer's independence. (SR)