This compilation of competitive events (tests) is designed for use with the competency-based Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum (IDECC) Following a brief description of the IDECC curriculum, tests are included in the following subject areas: advertising, apparel and accessories, finance and credit, food marketing, food service general…

Reviews Canadian business history books published since 1972 as well as reprints of useful older works. Topics dealt with are the fish, timber, and wheat industry, transportation, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, Canadian economy during World War I, the development of natural resources, and the lives of the rich and the powerful. (KC)

This manual provides curriculum materials for implementing a career exploration class in communication and media occupations within a Practical Arts Education program for middle/junior high school students. Introductory materials include the program master sequence, a list of communication and media occupations, and an overview of the…

Describes areas in which aspiring broadcast announcers can be helped, such as correct voice production, precise articulation, proper consonant formation, etc. (PD)

Reviews six corporate histories more as documents of organizational culture than as objective histories to ascertain their value in organizational communication studies. (PD)

Provides a course survey of the structure, conditions, functions, and operations of the American film industry. (PD)

Describes a collaboration between 10 private companies and 10 professors from 4 universities in an effort to keep researchers on the cutting edge of both the science that underlies future generations of electronic devices and the accompanying fabrication techniques. (ZWH)

Describes the author's experience conjoining her academic training and background in publishing to encourage her students to think about the larger context of their writing. Finds that a wealth of new options and pedagogic techniques become possible when extra-academic experience is brought into the classroom. (SG)

Points out that chemical hazards are the major cause of accidents in chemical industry and describes a safety teaching approach using a simulation. Explains a problem statement on exothermic liquid-phase reactions. (YDS)

Describes how and when to teach separation science to chemical engineering students. Separation science is important for industrial businesses involving the manufacture of adsorption systems, distillation columns, extractors, and other separation equipment and techniques. (Contains 13 references.) (YDS)

Focusing on the occupational clusters of natural resources and manufacturing, this unit entitled "Baking Industry" is one of four grade 2 units which are part of a total set of twenty-seven career development curriculum units for grades K-6. This unit is organized into four sections. Section 1 identifies one career development-centered…

Discusses the use of simulated "public inquiries" in classrooms. Includes factors involved in developing two such simulations. Describes basic components and sample texts for "The Generation Game," which deals with building a nuclear power facility, and "Closing the Foundry," which focuses on the implications of…

Outlines the factors influencing copywriter workloads and responsibilities, such as spot lengths, psychographics, continuity, station promotional activities, advertising, and graphic enhancers. (PD)

Presents a guide for the young writer seeking publication. (JL)

Examines a simulation approach to teaching selected research concepts to marketing and distributive education students and to applying these concepts to advertising layout, broadcast media advertising, retail selling, and wholesaling. (CT)