Discusses ways journalism faculty can contribute to the goals of Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) programs, including: speaking at WAC teacher training seminars and publishing student writing. (MS)

Describes a project undertaken at New Mexico State University in which students set up and operated their own ad agencies. (FL)

Describes a three and one half hour class in which students must rewrite stories for four editions of a daily newspaper, with updates on a fire in progress, press releases, and obituaries added during the class period. (HTH)

Presents an exercise in which students must write five broadcast leads from five of the major newspaper stories reported on the day they were born. (HTH)

Describes several activities that can be used to involve students in class and prevent them from becoming merely passive observers of the teacher. (FL)

Describes a newswriting exercise to teach coverage of public speaking events in which students were asked to report on Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount. (HTH)

Suggests that "gatekeeper" studies about subjective judgments can be useful in helping graduate journalism students appreciate the role that personal preferences and prejudices play in the selection of news. (HOD)

Presents an editorial assignment that addresses students' inability to formulate and stick to a theme, and their lack of tight writing, by highlighting the similarities between editorial writing and magazine writing. (HTH)

Describes writing exercises that release students' imaginative powers and help their news writing become fresher and more descriptive. (RL)

Describes how two objectives--enhancing public relations thinking and producing an attractive showpiece of writing talent for the student--form the basis of a course in public relations at the University of Florida. (HOD)

Explains how computers can be used in the journalism class for a variety of writing exercises. (FL)

Describes an exercise in which journalism students were given living journalists to research and write about. (FL)

Describes a journalism writing assignment in which students compile a specialized style manual with computer and business terms. (HTH)

Journalism teachers share ideas about copywriting assignments, research in public relations, student involvement in a television production, and the use of journalism classes to monitor language skills. (HOD)