Reveals inconsistencies in the news services' style books. Points out problems in teaching journalistic writing style. (RL)

Provides a journalism teacher's handout that summarizes the essentials of the "Associated Press Stylebook." (RL)

Shows that several sources are important for an accurate news story. Offers guidelines for getting student journalists to select several news sources and obtain information from them. (RL)

Discusses one of the most difficult problems in the adviser's career, teaching journalism students to substitute disciplined thought for non-rational stereotyping in their reporting and writing. (LJR)

Notes that one of the toughest jobs when teaching future journalists is to convince them to control their use of description while permitting originality in their work. (RL)

Tells how the student news service at the University of Houston operates to place student writing in area publications and to provide students with assignments for stories needed by specific publications. (GT)

Provides pointers regarding seven basic steps for writing a student body public opinion survey news story: selecting a topic, forming some hypotheses, designing a questionnaire, constructing a sample design, collecting the data, analyzing the data, and writing the news story. (GT)

Describes the use of a computerized editing/typesetting system by the student newspaper staff at Brigham Young University. (GT)

Presents ten news situations and outlines factors that editors might consider in deciding whether they should publish news accounts of the situations. (GW)

Reports on a study indicating that campus newspapers ought to be making efforts to find out whether their readers really want or read longer stories, such as in investigative or interpretive reporting. (RL)