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A pilot project tested and evaluated teleconferencing as a medium for training engineering teaching assistants in technical writing. The teleconference, which linked 15 participants in the engineering departments and writing centers of the University of South Carolina and Ohio State University, also included a training session on the use of genre analysis to teach engineering students how to write abstracts. Preconference planning procedures included testing software, noting equipment limitations, defining program topic and structure, and promoting participation. The teleconference itself was comprised of segments such as an introduction, a free writing exercise and discussion, and an abstracting exercise. While evaluation of the project acknowledged some of the difficulties encountered in planning, preparing and using the technology, the system was nonetheless judged to be a potentially valuable tool for economical and effective engineering education. Appended are illustrations of the storyboard used, a guide to the history and timeline of the project, copies of slides used, and the handout used for the abstracting portion of the program. (CH)

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