Offers suggestions for using popular magazines to create innovative layouts in school yearbooks. (SRT)

Describes five common headline styles, how to place them properly, and their advantages and disadvantages. (SRT)

Suggests ways high school yearbook photographers can shoot pictures that will "tell the story" of their school. (JL)

Recommends using a feedback form to help student reporters solve problems relating to the accuracy of direct or indirect quotation of sources. (JL)

Provides guidelines for high school editors to help improve their paper's operation, image, and content, including devising a style manual and covering school board, faculty, parent, and administration activities. (HTH)

Discusses techniques used to write a monthly celebrity interview column for a high school newspaper. (RL)

Intended for Thompson Valley High School newspaper faculty advisers and student staff, this handbook provides a model for organizing and publishing a student newspaper, the "Thompson Valley Voice." In addition to an introductory section, the handbook contains four parts. The policies section contains staff rules, policies, grading system, job…

Information for preparing technical reports is presented in this guide. This information includes: (1) descriptions of a technical report, an abstract, and a technical paper; (2) guidelines for writing abstracts and technical reports; (3) guidelines for developing an outline; (4) a sample student report format; and (5) a technical report appearing…

This student magazine, created by the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classes of a local unit of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) is a collection of personal opinions, reports, and creative writing with illustrations. Compositions are by both individual students and groups. Selections include the account of a field trip,…

This student magazine created by the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classes of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) is a collection of personal opinions, reports, and creative writing with illustrations. Each item was written as a voluntary collaboration, homework, or classwork. Items include poems, letters, accounts of…

As part of the National Education Association (NEA) Mastery in Learning Project, faculty and students of the Greasewood/Toyei Consolidated Boarding School developed a booklet of Navajo students' work. The purpose of the booklet is to promote better understanding of the Navajo culture. Navajo culture emphasizes respect for the earth, reverence of…

This guide is designed to assist doctoral students in successfully completing a doctoral dissertation at Rutgers University of New Jersey. It contains an explanation of the procedures and content necessary for completing a dissertation proposal and for writing the dissertation. Guidelines are presented for the dissertation proposal in which…

Explores ways to share mathematics both in and out of school and uses the newspaper as a vehicle for communicating ideas about mathematics. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)

This collection of mathematics word problems was developed by adult learners in the Reach One Program. The first page describes the steps that led to the finished product: having learners work word problems; listing steps for solving word problems; having learners work problems according to these steps; providing a list of key words that indicate…

Geared to student journalists and their advisors, this handbook demonstrates how different journalism techniques can be used to cover developing nations issues locally. News briefs are timely, short stories that give an overview or summary of a news topic. A news event is similar to a news brief in that the event being covered must be current and…