| Description |
xxi, 383 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Of work and English ; Toward a working English for twenty-first-century schools and colleges / Mary Sue Garay -- Work in transition : trends and implications / Stephen A. Bernhardt and Bruce W. Farmer -- Technology, education, and workplaces of the future : a parent's view / Patricia Sullivan -- Beyond basics : workplace skills in the new manufacturing environment / Sally K. Robinson -- Technical and political literacy : training and communicating in the nuclear power industry / Carolyn Boiarsky and Sarah Liggett -- Literacy practices in the healthcare industry : the challenge for teachers / Paul R. Meyer and Patricia Teel Bates -- Workers at risk, or, how you read and write might save your life / Beverly Sauer -- Transferring writing knowledge to the workplace : are we on track? / Anne Beaufort -- Adjusting school writing curricula to reflect expanded workplace writing / Larry Mikulecky -- Tech-prep concepts and the English classroom : all students must be work-ready / Gregory Johnson and Robert Taylor -- Secondary technical communication : moving beyond vocational English / Mary Helen Steinauer and Janet Hyden -- Workplace literacy and the two-year college : democratic vistas / Katherine E. Staples and Pamela S. Ecker -- Preparing all students for the new workplace literacy : avenues for English instruction in high schools and colleges / David A. Jolliffe -- Creating partnerships for literacy in the college workplace / Libby Falk Jones -- Oregon initiative : pursuing America's choice for high skill schooling / Del Schalock and Joyce M. Reinke -- Partnerships : intellectual and institutional relationships between education and business / Jeanne Marcum Gerlach and Dwane Kingery -- Forging new partnerships : exemplary business/school coalitions / Helen Constantinides and Mary Sue Garay. |
| Subject |
English language -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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English language -- Technical English -- Study and teaching.
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English language -- Business English -- Study and teaching.
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Interdisciplinary approach in education.
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Vocational education.
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Career education.
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Literacy.
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| Added Author |
Garay, Mary Sue, 1946-
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Bernhardt, Stephen A.
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| ISBN |
0791436764 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0791436756 (acid-free paper) |
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