This textbook provides the journalism student with a practical demonstration of copyreading. Reporters' copy is shown first untouched and then as it undergoes improvements in clarity, effectiveness, and news style. Using many examples of copy from student newspapers and stories written by students for reporting and editing courses, as well as copy…

Resources from various subject areas are organized in one publication for use by teachers in elementary schools having a considerable enrollment of children who are Spanish speaking and of Latin American descent. The general purpose of the learning experiences described is to help children achieve in the areas of oral communication skills,…

Six highly skilled middle school readers read aloud a story from a basal reader, then orally retold the story in their own words, wrote a version of the story, and finally read their own version aloud. Typescripts made from audio tape were compared with typescripts of the written compositions. The oral and written retellings were analyzed for…

A course presenting projects designed to foster invention and develop a sense of logical ordering is given. Performance objectives include: (1) The student will select ideas for development in an orderly manner; (2) The student will convey this message via an expository piece; (3) The student will select appropriate supportive elements to develop…

Written for those who want to get started in the field of broadcast journalism, this practical self-study guide discusses all the basic elements needed and shows how the professionals on both local and network levels prepare for a newscast. The content encompasses how a newsman writes his copy, how he "plays" his story, and how writing style is…

A course in the basic principles of journalism is presented. The principles are studied as applied to writing columns, reviews, feature stories, human interest articles, fashion reporting, comics, personality interviews, and other types of entertaining writing for the newspaper. Course objectives include: (1) The student will identify feature…

The proper approach to children's writing from an educational point of view is discussed. The point is made that there is something fundamentally wrong with the current approach in children's writing. Current books on children's writing deal only with children's writing. It is recommended that any program which aims to be efficient in the teaching…

Supervisors of teaching assistants in small English programs should have no other supervisory obligations, should be given released time, and should meet four qualifications: above average as a teacher of lower-division students, experienced in pedagogical learning theory, excellent in human relations, and experienced in trainee supervision. In…

In order to better understand the characteristics of the Chicano dialect of English, 93 freshman composition papers written by 48 Chicano students at Pan American University in Edinburg, Texas, were examined. The primary concern of this examination was to categorize, ultimately to explain, the morphological and syntactical variations from a norm.…

This study analyzed current practices in teacher evaluation of English composition and attempted to establish a "fairer and faster" way of accomplishing such evaluation. Data were collected from departments of freshman English in Louisiana state colleges and universities, in order to form the basis of evaluation checklists from which behavioral…

Written by a group of English teachers in elementary and secondary independent schools, this second volume of the English notebook is divided into three sections: "Evaluations of Compositions Written in Class,""Tests on Comprehension of Prose," and "Tests on Comprehension of Poetry." Focusing on grades five through nine, these tests and…

A review of current theory and research related to writing ability leads to the conclusion that there is no existing test, instrument, or set of procedures which will provide valid data regarding the writing abilities of individuals. As an alternative approach, a textual cognition model of written communicative competence is proposed and…

This article looks at why educational publishers produce materials for children with a limited regard for children's interests. (CD)

The evidence for the efficacy of sentence-combining exercises is not as persuasive as it has been represented. (JH)

The discipline of writing well is fundamental to the concept of writing as a liberating activity. (JH)