This guide, which combines business and marketing concepts with microcomputer applications, is intended to be used in designing a 2-semester course in business technology and to serve as the main component for articulation activities in the event that students completing the course decide to pursue additional training or education. The course incorporates reading, writing, composition, speaking, keyboarding, calculating, proofreading, and microcomputer skills into units of study on the following topics: accounting, business communications, business law, business math, career awareness, entrepreneurship, general business, human relations, job search skills, keyboarding, marketing, microcomputer applications, salesmanship, and abbreviated writing (notetaking). The course is designed to be contemporary and relevant and to provide basic information about careers, the economy and factors affecting it, educational opportunities, and training in industry. Included in each unit are some or all of the following: one or more tasks along with lists of related performance objectives, source materials, suggested activities, and enabling objectives; learning activities to accomplish each of the objectives; suggested evaluation methods; instructional text; suggested teaching strategies; unit suggestions; and a list of optional resource materials. (MN)