Describes a course at the University of Toledo in which journalism students learn the newsletter publishing business. (RB)

Describes an elective course emphasizing basic grammar and punctuation for journalism students. (HTH)

Explains how the use of charts can help students sort out the many and varied cases and concepts in communication law. Contains an example of such a chart. (FL)

Describes a course that documents in often laborious and relatively uncritical detail the history of the Canadian press and its American and British antecedents. Describes a course on the contemporary press consisting of various forms of press criticism. (HTH)

Discusses how property records served as the basis for assignments in one news reporting course. (RB)

Discusses how using newsmagazines in introductory journalism courses can promote the habit of reading current news. Claims that the newsmagazine approach teaches students to be critical, skeptical, and analytical consumers of news. (MM)

Describes a course in commercial copywriting for electronic media in which students must also present orally their copy to the class to drive home two points: (1) the writing has to sell products, and (2) the writer has to sell the spot or campaign to the client or employers. (HTH)

Argues that copywriting students should be taught to recognize and create an advertising concept before learning to write advertising copy. Outlines a teaching method for creating advertising concepts, and discusses criteria for evaluating them. (MM)

Suggests that, with careful planning and a flexible approach, it is possible for journalism educators to provide advanced reporting students with opportunities for some realistic, on-site kinds of news coverage that can prove to be the highlight of the course. (HOD)

Describes an experimental seminar at the University of Kentucky designed to give upper-level journalism students a first hand look at how to cover the three branches of state government, while being 30 miles from the statehouse. (HTH)

Explains the technique "editorial step-asides," which is designed to help students learn the difference between fact and opinion in a teacher's lecture. (FL)

Describes a course that recently integrated instruction in reporting and editing into a basic newsgathering and processing class. (HTH)

Explores students' need for team experiences, advantages of teams to learning and to course management, methods of team and project management practiced in industry, and adaptation of industry's methods to projects focusing on freedom of expression. Describes the usefulness and lasting value of resulting student work. Suggests unusual ways to…

Suggests an approach to a core course in visual literacy that draws on three theories: the teaching perspective of the visual literacy movement; the analytical system from art and aesthetics; and the cognitive understanding of images from Gestalt psychology. (MG)