This guide is intended for use by United States Department of Education employees and contractors working on manuscripts to be published by all principal offices except for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, which includes the National Center for Education Statistics. It helps authors publish according to the duties and…

Tells how a group of high school students prepare and broadcast a daily in-school radio news show. (TO)

The editor of Elementary English'' discusses editing procedures now that an important new aspect of editing has been added, the avoidance of sexist use of language in all National Council of Teachers of English publications. (RB)

Describes an automatic display system which has been developed for the editing of concept subnetworks within a relational index and which employs only a floppy diskette drive and a PET 2001 microcomputer. Appendices on Farradane's Nine Relations and on the Graphic Editing System Commands and a reference list are included. (Author/JL)

Discusses the job market for technical communication graduates and the process for setting up a college degree program in technical communication. (AEA)

This study developed an up-to-date listing of the most frequently occurring words used in written business communication. The purpose of this study was to provide word lists that will be of use to researchers, curriculum specialists, and textbook publishers in designing and evaluating curriculum materials. (CT)

The "magapaper," a cross between a newspaper and a magazine, is seen as deserving serious consideration for replacing alumni newspapers. The magapaper offers the inside news characteristic of newspapers, opportunities for better design, opportunities for lengthier off-beat stories, and continuing education. (MLW)

Describes the characteristics of SPEAKEASY, an interactive computer language, and explains how it can be incorporated and used in information science courses in library schools. General headings include SPEAKEASY descriptions, comparison with other languages, functional usage of SPEAKEASY (text creation, editing, programming), and special…

Aspects covered include introducing the equipment, planning the movie, shooting the picture, editing the film, recording the sound track, and presenting the finished film to an audience. The steps involved in making an animated film are also outlined. (DLS)

Provides the school newspaper editor with tips for producing and writing a school newspaper. (HOD)

Addresses problems confronted by new yearbook advisers. (HOD)

Discusses negligence in defamation cases before the United States Supreme Court's decision in "Gertz v Robert Welch, Inc."; shows that courts have varied in what actions by reporters and editors they have considered negligent. (GT)

Reports that the purposes of writers of letters to the editor, as well as several kinds of unwritten editorial policies, accounted for the low level of mobilizing information in letters to the editor published by one daily newspaper. (GT)