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Wright, Leigh L.; Shemberger, Melony; Price, Elizabeth – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2016
Journalism professors are concerned with how effectively students understand current news events and engage with mainstream news sources. This essay is based on a survey administered to students in a newswriting course and analyzed the kinds of current news that students followed in weekly assignments designed with a digital, interactive approach.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Current Events, Journalism, Student Surveys
Bennett, Ron – Communication: Journalism Education Today (C:JET), 1989
Reports the results of a year-long program incorporating intensive journalistic writing into Advanced Placement English courses. Notes that most students who took the course received high scores on the Advanced Placement English Language and Composition test, and that all students in the course improved their writing. (MM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs, Course Descriptions, English Instruction
Smith, C. Zoe; Wenner, Wendy – Communication: Journalism Education Today (C:JET), 1989
Presents a brief overview of the 1989 Dow Jones Intensive Journalistic Writing Institute at Marquette University. (MM)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Course Descriptions, English Instruction, Journalism Education
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Smith, William Edward – Journalism Educator, 1990
Reports on the satisfaction of college news writing students with a computer program which combines reporting simulation with a writing analysis of the students' news stories. Finds that students rated the computer program significantly ahead of the paper version of the exercise. Suggests providing more detailed feedback in the computer program.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Evaluation, Higher Education
Oates, William – Studies in Language Learning, 1981
The use of computer assisted instruction (CAI) at Indiana University to provide basic grammar review to beginning writing students, and the results of an evaluation of the PLATO system as a learning resource are described. At the time of the evaluation, the CAI curriculum in use was the Language Arts Routing System (LARS). The evaluation involved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, College English, College Students