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Profiles 127 jobs for college graduates, each describing the nature of the work, working conditions, outlook, qualifications, advancement, and earnings; and includes a planning guide for conducting a job search, and a look at trends in jobs and industries
Topics: Employment, Professional Occupations, Careers / Job Opportunities, Business & Economics, Labor...
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Includes index
Topics: Business strategy, Organizational theory & behaviour, Professional Occupations, Business &...
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Topics: Vocational guidance, Computer Science (General), Professional Occupations, Business &...
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index
Topics: Political science & theory, Social classes, Professional Occupations, Social Stratification,...
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Rev. ed. of: Competing for clients. 1986
Topics: General, Marketing, Professional Occupations, Business / Economics / Finance, Professions,...
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Topics: Personal Christian testimony & popular inspirational works, Christian Life, Professional...
EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS FOR 1960, ESTIMATED EMPLOYMENT FOR 1965 AND 1970, ESTIMATES OF ADDITIONAL WORKERS NEEDED BY 1970, AND SALARY INFORMATION ARE PROVIDED FOR A WIDE RANGE OF OCCUPATIONS IN THE DENVER AREA. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM A DENVER STUDY, "JOBS AND THE FUTURE," BY ROBERT VAUGHAN OF THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE CO., 1962, AND THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REPORTS. NATIONAL DATA ARE ALSO INCLUDED TO COMPARE THE LOCAL DENVER OCCUPATIONS OUTLOOK WITH THE NATION'S JOB STRUCTURE....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Clerical Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment...
USING U.S. CENSUS BUREAU AND INDIANA EMPLOYMENT SECURITY DIVISION DATA, A PREVIOUS STUDY WAS UPDATED TO INCLUDE PROJECTIONS OF MANPOWER AND TRAINING NEEDS FOR THE TERRE HAUTE AREA. GRAPHS SHOW TRENDS FOR EIGHT OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES, THE NATION'S URBAN AREAS, INDIANA, AND THE TERRE HAUTE STANDARD METROPOLITAN AREA. MANPOWER NEEDS ARE SHOWN FOR SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONS AND GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYED FOR 1960, 1965, 1970, AND 1975 FOR THE FOLLOWING OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS--(1) PROFESSIONAL...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Clerical Occupations, Educational Needs, Employment Opportunities, Employment...
GROUPS OF TECHNICAL OCCUPATIONS ARE COMPARED IN TERMS OF CHARACTERISTICS OF EMPLOYMENT, SOURCE OF WORKERS, AND EDUCATIONAL AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS. SURVEY FINDINGS ARE GIVEN FOR EMPLOYER TRAINING PROGRAMS AND EMPLOYER VIEWS AND POLICIES ON THE UTILIZATION OF TECHNICIANS. THE SURVEY DATA WERE DERIVED FROM A SAMPLE OF 17,414 ESTABLISHMENTS LOCATED IN NEW YORK STATE, WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 50.4 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL EMPLOYMENT OF ALL BUSINESSES, EXCLUSIVE OF AGRICULTURE, DOMESTIC SERVICE, THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Educational Background, Educational Needs, Educational Programs,...
THE 53 TABLES OF DATA COLLECTED FROM A SURVEY OF 17,414 ESTABLISHMENTS IN NEW YORK INCLUDE (1) NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS WITH TECHNICAL OCCUPATIONS AND WITH ENGINEERS OR SCIENTISTS, BY INDUSTRY GROUP (INCLUDING NUMBER OF WORKERS THEY EMPLOY, NUMBER IN TECHNICAL OCCUPATIONS, AND NUMBER WHO ARE ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS), (2) NUMBER IN HOURLY-RATED AND IN SALARIED TECHNICAL OCCUPATIONS AND NUMBER EARNING LESS THAN TWO DOLLARS AN HOUR OR $75 A WEEK, BY OCCUPATIONAL GROUP, (3) NUMBER IN EACH DETAILED...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Background, Educational Needs, Educational Programs, Employment...
THE JOB CONTENT OF THE TECHNICAL OCCUPATIONS AND THE TECHNICAL SKILLS AND SUBJECT MATTER KNOWLEDGES REQUIRED ARE BASED PRIMARILY ON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY EMPLOYERS FROM 17,414 ESTABLISHMENTS IN NEW YORK STATE. DATA ARE ALSO GIVEN ON GRADE STRUCTURE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS, TESTS AND LICENSES REQUIRED FOR THE JOB, SOURCES OF QUALIFIED WORKERS, AND PROMOTIONAL LINES. THE OCCUPATIONS ARE -- (1) DRAFTSMEN, (2) STRUCTURAL DESIGN TECHNICIANS, (3) ELECTRO AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Certification, Educational Background, Educational Needs, Employment Experience,...
TO EXAMINE A NUMBER OF STEREOTYPES AND IMPRESSIONS HELD BY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS ABOUT DIFFERENCES IN RURAL-URBAN ATTITUDES, THIS RESEARCH ANALYZED THE RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS FROM 20 NATIONAL OPINION POLLS CONDUCTED BY THE GALLUP ORGANIZATION AND THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER FROM 1953 TO 1965. COMPARISONS WERE MADE BETWEEN THE RESPONSES OF FARMERS AND ADULT MEMBERS OF FARMERS' HOUSEHOLDS, AND FOUR LEVELS OF NONAGRICULTURAL WORKERS AND ADULT MEMBERS OF NONAGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLDS--UPPER AND...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, Blue Collar Occupations, Comparative Analysis, Farmers, Professional...
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF RURAL IN-MIGRANT YOUTH SEARCHING FOR JOBS IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. THE DATA CAME FROM TWO RANDOMIZED SAMPLES OF RURAL YOUTH (TOTALING 4046) MIGRATING TO ST. LOUIS FROM 50 MILES OR MORE OUTSIDE THE CITY. THESE RURAL YOUTH ARE CHARACTERIZED AS FOLLOWS--(1) TWO-THIRDS HAD FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL, WITH ONLY 10 PERCENT ACHIEVING A HIGHER LEVEL, (2) 60 PERCENT WERE MALES, AND (3) IN INTERVIEWS ALMOST HALF STATED THEY WERE SEEKING JOBS IN THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Employment, Labor Market, Metropolitan Areas,...
AS PART OF A LARGER STUDY OF CAREERS IN THE MENTAL HEALTH FIELD BEING MADE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THIS INVESTIGATION STUDIED (1) A MODEL FOR STUDYING PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR, (2) EXTENT TO WHICH PROFESSIONAL, IDEOLOGICAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS INFLUENCE PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONS, AND (3) IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING PROFESSIONAL ADULT EDUCATORS. PROFESSIONAL MENTAL HEALTH PERSONNEL WERE STUDIED BY QUESTIONNAIRE IN METROPOLITAN CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES, AND NEW YORK. LINES OF SPECIALIZATION...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administration, Allied Health Occupations, Health Personnel, Investigations, Job...
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEADERS IN THE FIELDS OF ECONOMICS, EDUCATION, PUBLIC AND WORLD AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT, MANPOWER UTILIZATION, LABOR, AND INDUSTRY PARTICIPATED IN A CONFERENCE ON MANPOWER UTILIZATION AND TRAINING TO REVIEW TRAINING NEEDS AND PROPOSALS FOR MEETING THEM AT ALL SKILL LEVELS, FROM THE DISADVANTAGED GROUPS TO THE PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED PRACTITIONERS. THE PRESENTATIONS WERE--(1) "STATE INITIATIVE IN MANPOWER TRAINING" BY NELSON ROCKEFELLER, (2) "A SURVEY OF...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections,...
INFORMATION IN THIS GUIDE IS INTENDED FOR THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENT WHO SEEKS EMPLOYMENT UTILIZING HIS FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS. EMPLOYMENT TRENDS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS, TEACHING, AND OTHER VOCATIONS AND PROFESSIONS ARE DESCRIBED. LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY AND VOCATIONAL SKILL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE VARIOUS JOBS ARE DETAILED, AND SAMPLE DESCRIPTIONS OF JOB VACANCIES ARE INCLUDED TO HELP THE STUDENT RECOGNIZE BOTH THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business, Career Opportunities, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns,...
The conference objectives were to review the forces that are changing manpower needs and to seek ways of staffing medical laboratories more effectively. Seven aspects of the problem were treated: (1) need for detailed analysis of personnel needs (2) effects of technology and automation on laboratory practices, (3) attracting, educating, and retaining qualified personnel, (4) achievement of higher-quality education and training, (5) ways of keeping up to date, (6) career mobility and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations, Labor Force Development, Medical Laboratory Assistants,...
The following were the main problems discussed at a junior college workshop in Mississippi: (1) the formation of a framework within which junior and senior colleges might develop core curricular or general education requirements acceptable for transfer between the institutions, and (2) the role of the junior colleges with respect to course offerings in the professional and pre-professional areas. Major addresses were given on such topics as the vocational and technical programs in the public...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Education, Conference Reports, Liberal Arts, Professional Education,...
Boys (165) and girls (139) in grades 3-6 in an almost entirely Negro Higher Horizons school in New York City were studied to determine the extent to which they differed in their aspiration to white-collar and professional occupations and in their ability to identify these occupations. The children were asked to make a choice among "professional," white-collar," and "other" occupations and were given 18 plates of the Vocational Apperception Test to ascertain their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Black Students, Career Choice, Disadvantaged Youth,...
A conceptual and methematical model was developed to study the preparation of persons holding Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees and to discover the proportion of them who assume academic positions. Data were collected on the number of US and foreign engineering students enrolled, degrees granted, and their employment in academic, industrial, governmental and other sectors of the national economy. The model, consisting of over 200 non-linear difference equations, was programmed for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Engineers, Graduate Study, Higher...
Professional and technical fields are the fastest growing occupational sectors in the US. More than one-third of all professional and technical workers are employed by government, particularly in administrative positions, and exert an increasing influence on public policy. But, with the exception of city managers, many of these employees regard themselves as members of the disciplines in which they were trained rather than primarily as public administrators. The field of public administration...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Government (Administrative Body), Government Employees, Governmental...
The committee on Graduate Study and Research of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture held a conference in Chicago (Arpil 1968) to study possible innovations in architecture and architectural education. Drawing upon the experiences of educators in the areas of medicine, engineering, and research design, the conferees studied the problems and opportunities in developing graduate study, scholarship, and research in architecture. The educators concentrated on the urgent need of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Architects, Architectural Character, Architectural Education, Architectural...
This paper is an explication of the concept of a network of consultants to help people obtain answers to day-to-day questions for which answers are known. Each member of such a network is viewed to have three capabilities: 1)answering questions directly from his own memory, 2)answering questions with the aid of library resources, and 3)referring the question to a member of the same network or to an expert outside it. Conditions are derived which involve each member's ability to choose...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Consultants, Human Resources, Information Needs, Information Services, Information...
This study of the images of occupations is based on the assumption that the world of work is of primary importance to young people choosing a career. Data were collected by use of the occupations questionnaire which was designed so that a respondent was asked to rate each of 15 occupations, on 34 two-ended, seven-point rating scales. The target population was students involved directly in college education, and the verbal system is that associated with the titles of major high-level professions...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Career Guidance, College Faculty, College Students, Employed Women,...
Five speeches presented at the 41st annual meeting of the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, October 1964. Of particular interest are the results of a survey of 390 graduate schools, colleges or departments of education seeking information on the courses offered and scope of training given school plant planning specialists. (FPO)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Planning, National Surveys, Occupational Surveys, Professional Education,...
Discontinuity in changing from one status or role to another lessens with knowledge of the new role (gained through observation or indirect sources such as a counselor) and acquisition of its behavioral characteristics prior to formalization of the change (anticipatory socialization). This theory presumes that the image or role expectation upon which anticipatory socialization is based is accurate. In professional roles such as nursing or teaching, however, conflicting images exist: the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Professional Occupations, Role Perception, Socialization, Warnecke, Richard B.,...
The advent of the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) provides hope and impetus for dramatic steps to be taken in redesigning the education profession. To contribute substantially to solving the major problems of educational manpower, school organization, and governance of the profession, the National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards (NCTEPS) must reexamine its directions and emphases in light of changing problems. The problems of educational manpower include...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Education, Educational Change, Governance, Labor Force Development, Professional...
This paper, prepared for the September 5, 1968, National Education Association (NEA) Staff Conference, presents the NEA position, program, and strategy with regard to preservice and inservice teacher education and professional standards. Introductory remarks include a list of seven priorities which form the "framework of context of the NEA program"; a list of 12 goals which the Association continues to champion and promote; appraisal of the "broken-front approach" strategy...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Collective Bargaining, Demonstration Programs, Education, Governance, Professional...
The purpose of this study was to identify the trained manpower needed to cope with Indiana's mounting problems in air and water pollution control, liquid and solid waste disposal, and water supply and resources. This report contains data concerning the present employment, current job opportunities, and projected manpower needs for related professional and technician level occupations. Included are details of a proposed associate degree program designed to prepare pollution control technicians....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Air Pollution, Associate Degrees, Curriculum Design, Educational Needs, Employment...
In a survey carried out in March 1967, questionnaires were sent to about 39 percent of the lawyers in New York State to find out their reactions to the TV series 'BEHIND THE LAW'. Of seven percent of the lawyers returning the questionnaires; one half had seen at least one or two of the shows, and 12 percent had viewed ten or more. Almost all of the respondents thought the programs served a specific need for New York attorneys, and three-fourths of them thought that TV is either 'better than' or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Educational Media, Educational Television, Instructional Programs,...
This research study began as an attempt to discover the extent of professionalism and variables (individual, community, school, etc.) related to it among public school teachers. Preliminary analysis of survey data gathered from 3189 undergraduate college students and 9688 public school teachers indicated few relationships of any of the independent study variables to professionalism, and weak interrelations among the different aspects of professionalism. (Most of the related negative results are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Career Planning, Education Majors, Goal...
This collection of 65 articles related to the profession of educational supervision is intended primarily for use with students in teacher education. Represented in the single volume are articles from a decade of writing (1960-69) by leaders in the "emerging profession" of supervision. The essays, which cover a wide range of subjects in their attempt to "analyze current needs and to project sound proposals for meeting them in the perspective of the future," fall into five...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Administration, Leadership Responsibility, Professional Occupations,...
An actual contract form used for architectural services is presented. Fees, duties, and services are included. Services are listed in the following phases--(1) schematic design, (2) design development, (3) contract document, and (4) construction. Extra services are listed, and owner's responsibility with regard to cost estimates is given. Construction cost is defined, and the payment schedule is given according to progress of the project. Other provisions include--(1) accounting records, (2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Architects, Contracts, Professional Occupations, Professional Services
Although motives vary, most VISTA Volunteers bring with them a service orientation and a genuine desire to work with people. But few enter with any prior experience in the social welfare field or any clear picture of the particular nature of the helping role. The majority of Volunteers are at a turning point in their development as they leave the student culture and move out into the adult world of work. It is not surprising therefore that the VISTA experience should have profound effects on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Human Services, Individual Characteristics, Professional Occupations, Recruitment,...
The definition of the potential user community is one of the objectives of the studies being conducted in connection with the Language Information Network and Clearinghouse System (LINCS) project at the Center for Applied Linguistics. As part of this activity, various aspects of the language sciences community are being examined, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Among the quantitative aspects is included an estimate of the size of the community. As most of the user community belongs to at...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Group Membership, Linguistics, Occupational Surveys, Professional Associations,...
A number of Maryland institutes have inaugurated an associate professional continuum, or latticework in mental health. The programs are designedly generalist in character, aiming at the preparation of persons competent to work in a variety of clinical settings. Job assignments and degree of clinical responsibility reflect many factors, level of training, prior background, and experience. The associate professional enter the mental health field taking on beginning professional responsibilities...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Differentiated Staffs, Educational Innovation, Educational Opportunities, Educational...
The description of the conference of the American Speech and Hearing Association is introduced by a discussion of the background and procedures used in the conference. The general areas dealt with in the discussions were the necessary skills and knowledge of speech pathologists and audiologists, the improvement of professional education curricula, and methods of determining professional competency. Group discussions summarized cover education at the B.A. level, more flexible undergraduate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Personnel, Audiology, College Curriculum, College Programs,...
The need for adequate knowledge of the personality patterns associated with professional competence, especially that of women professionals, spurred the authors to study this relationship, using 221 professional woman as subjects. The subjects, professionals from nine different occupations, were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) from which the patterning of subtest scores provides the basis for the Gittinger Personality Assessment System (PAS). Primary emphasis was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Employment Qualifications, Females, Lawyers,...
This report on 1969 manpower problems and programs reflects an increased emphasis on the economic as well as the social objectives and contributions of manpower programs. Seven chapters present details of the economic, socioeconomic, labor, training, and programmatic activities which constitute the nation's manpower program: (1) Manpower and Economic Policy, (2) The Employment and Unemployment Record, (3) New Developments in Manpower Programs, (4) Toward Equal Employment Opportunity, (5)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Policy, Annual Reports, Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs,...
To identify occupations related to the planning and administration of urban programs and to provide a basis for future employment studies and manpower requirements, interviews were conducted in five cities with officials who had knowledge of planning and administrative activities and manpower. The cities varied according to size, characteristics, and location. Several hundred professional, administrative and technical job titles were identified and condensed into 40 occupation groups, ranging...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Employment Opportunities, Entry Workers, Labor Needs, Occupational...
In a rapidly changing technological society, appropriate choice of occupation becomes increasingly important to the individual as well as to the employer. In this study, the effectiveness of a set of weights, established by the chi-square technique, for distinguishing among similar and dissimilar occupations was compared with the weighting scheme for the Kuder Preference Record Occupational Form D. Data were scored by both sets of weights to determine the percentage of males correctly...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Choice, Career Guidance, Occupational Tests, Predictive Measurement,...
The collective negotiation process between professional teachers organizations and school systems is fast becoming a full time job. Many school districts employ professional negotiations specialists to handle bargaining on behalf of school boards. To obtain an idea of current practices in assigning the function of chief negotiator, the Educational Research Service sent a questionnaire to 128 school systems (over 50,000 pupils) known to have negotiated agreements with teachers. Results of this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Employment Qualifications, Occupational...
While most servicemen have no trouble finding employment in the current booming job market, they often find themselves taking jobs beneath their highest skill levels, a loss not only to them but to their employers. Those whose military service was in non-technical jobs often can find jobs only at the beginners level and even those may be hard to come by. This doctoral study investigated the extent to which military experience contributed to the qualifications of the civilian applicant and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Planning, Job Skills, Military Training, Occupational Surveys, Professional...
The data presented are the findings of a survey of counseling psychology graduates from all schools offering doctorates between 1962 and 1967. A stratified sample of 208 graduates was selected. Responses were elicited on such survey items as: (1) the quality and make-up of their doctoral programs; (2) whether or not they are members of APA; (3) their educational background; (4) the amount of research carried on since graduation; (5) which journals they read; and (6) types of work and settings...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Sciences, Counseling, Counselor Educators, Counselor Role, Counselor...
Using a developmental approach to establish a rational model for the assignment of tasks and roles to various levels of mental health manpower, 36 participants attended four 2-day seminars which were concerned with needs of clients, activities to meet the needs of clients, needs of agencies and institutions, and legal, institutional, and professional constraints. Mental health agencies have traditionally clustered tasks and activities according to professional specialities, agencies, or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cluster Grouping, Community Organizations, Conference Reports, Conferences,...
This report describes the experience of a group of New Careers paraprofessionals who were trained in human service occupations by the National Committee on Employment of Youth (NCEY) in a special project in 1965 and 1966 and employed by a variety of public and private human service agencies. The report provides data on the longest period for followup (nearly 4 years) of any New Careers program and systematically documents the problems of career advancement. In an attempt to measure the impact...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities,...
Relating the supply of scientific manpower to the educational potential of the general population and the productive capacity of the educational system, this study disaggregates independent projections of scientific manpower supply and demand to yield projections for water resources manpower. This supply of engineers, natural scientists, and social scientists is projected at 3.3 million for 1980, compared to a demand for 3.5 million. Supply and demand relationships for the 1970-1980 decade show...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Projections, Labor Needs, Labor Supply, Occupational Mobility,...
During fiscal year 1970, more than 49,000 persons received training through the Veterans' Administration (VA) in 125 different health services programs, including 21,550 physicians, 1,359 dentists, and 26,142 trainees in the allied and administrative health fields. Many VA hospitals and out-patient clinics indicated that more than 12,000 additional trainees could be accommodated by September 1971 if funds were provided immediately for trainee stipends, instructor salaries, space modification,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Programs,...
Whether linguistics is a scientific study is reviewed in the light of what linguists actually do professionally. Personal anecdotes illustrate the linguist's view of speech as the dominant language force and language as the vehicle of social interaction and communication. The work of George K. Zipf is commented on, and Morris Bishop's poem "The Naughty Preposition" is cited. Concluding remarks focus on the linguist's necessity to strive for objectivity in collecting and analyzing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Language Research, Language Role, Linguistics,...
A list of works dealing with adult education in professional fields is given. One hundred and fifty citations are listed. Ordering information for documents cited is also provided. (CK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Bibliographies, Professional Occupations, D'Antoni, Susan, Comp.
