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A two-semester course in technical writing, developed at Hinds Junior College, is designed as a practical course which fulfills the junior college English requirements and helps students to develop the language skills they will need in the job market and in technical careers. During the first semester, students are guided in writing process explanations, instructions, definitions, descriptions of mechanisms, cause/effect analyses, and classification and partition analyses. Second semester students are instructed in writing summaries, letters, reports, and a research paper. Each kind of writing is treated as a unit of study for which each student receives an outline to use as a guide for reading and studying necessary chapters, for keeping up with assignments, and for test review. Students are also asked to read both publications related to career choice and literary selections. (Five sample instructional sheets are included.) (JM)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert