The article illustrates a way typing students, with the guidance of a competent teacher, can individually progress toward prescribed competencies with the typewriter. The method consists of five easy steps: plan, orient, review, guide, and evaluate. (Author)

Noting that one of the biggest factors in motivating students in technical writing classes is to convince them that they will need to write in their future jobs, this paper offers evidence for use by teachers in persuading students of the importance of developing their writing skills. The first part of the paper presents refutations of some of the…

THE MAJOR PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGES INCLUDED IN THE NEW YORK STATE SYLLABUS FOR BOOKKEEPING I AND BOOKKEEPING II COURSES HAD BEEN USED BY FORMER BOOKKEEPING STUDENTS IN THEIR BUSINESS LIFE, POST-HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION, AND PERSONAL LIFE AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH CERTAIN NEW PRACTICES NOT…

This bibliography, based on searches of "Educational Index,""Resources in Education," and "Psychological Abstracts," lists articles, reports, and dissertations detailing the application of marketing science to educational settings. Entries are organized in five sections: research methods in marketing; marketing research; applications of marketing…

To aid the development of criteria to guide high school curriculum planners and teachers, data for 160 jobs covering six different positions with 112 employers were gathered in 428 executive-employee-supervisor interviews in a 21-county area in northern Mississippi. Based on an analyses of the activities and duties of the six positions according…

Women who provide day care in their own homes augment their modest earnings in some cases if they take afvantage of deductions permitted under the Internal Revenue regulations concerning use of private homes for business purposes. Where combined family income is at a level where income tax is payable, it may be profitable to calculate all…

Described is the need for simplicity and clarity in written business communication. Some ways that instructors of business subjects can more effectively teach this writing skill to students are presented. (MS)

Describes a librarian's three-month experience exploring the potential for a career as an information broker in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, area. Some consideration of business aspects is included. (JD)

The business teacher can serve as a resource person to business community secretaries and local school secretaries. This article presents guidelines for conducting enrichment programs/activities and lists and discusses eight skill areas in which enrichment activities might be useful. (SH)

Discusses records management principles which provide the "whys" for practices and procedures in an efficient filing system and suggests techniques for incorporating these principles into filing instruction and for helping students develop an understanding of procedures involved in processing, storing, and retrieving records. (TA)

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)

Advertising should be viewed as a sales-building investment and not simply an element of business outlay that actually is a completely controllable expense. Suggestions deal with the sales budget, profiling the store and its customers, advertising media, promotional ideas, and consumer protection. (LBH)

Discusses the benefits of using teleconferencing in the business classroom and the important lessons this use can teach students who will enter business. (CH)

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

After identifying six reasons why the traditional office is inefficient, the author offers six suggestions for coping with such inefficiency, emphasizing that word processing might be the answer since it enables a firm to obtain optimum benefits from personnel and equipment through carefully orchestrated procedures and controls. (HD)