Describes the role of communications in production management from the viewpoint of a practicing supervisor. (FL)

Reports that students learn to increase their productivity potential by increasing their confidence and proficiency in face-to-face dictation. (AEA)

Argues that using videotape recordings of business professionals involved in writing can be an effective way of stimulating student interest in business communication. (FL)

Emphasizes the need for proofreading instruction in a college technical writing class. Provides the locations of frequently undetected proofreading errors and a strategy for when and how to proofread. (RL)

Briefly describes a variety of office equipment, including copiers, ditto machines, offset printers, typewriters, typesetting equipment, computers, and dictation equipment. (AEA)

Describes a communication assignment that require business communication students to interview business executives. (FL)

Presents three ideas for use in business communication courses: (1) using advertisements to teach sales writing, (2) establishing strong student-teacher relationships, and (3) using proposal writing to increase student interest in business communication. (FL)

Offers a technique designed to help business communication students write sales letters and letters of application. (FL)

Discusses a student-centered teaching method that allows business communication students to work in editing groups and use an overhead projector to teach the class about business letter writing. (FL)

Discusses communication by objectives, a strategy that extends management by objectives techniques into the area of communication to strengthen ties between decision making and decision communicating. Discusses its classroom application. (FL)