Stylistic analysis by both rhetoricians and literary critics is incomplete, often subjective, impressionistic, and sometimes misleading. The ideal method is objective analysis, based on adequate verbal samples, which identifies and describes the style of any writer or speaker as distinctive to that person alone. In order to do this, the theories…

The professional library periodicals in Colorado were analyzed in terms of the type of information disseminated, user needs and the function of the various publications. The three data collection techniques used were: (1) content analysis, to answer general questions about the scope, type of article, news coverage, and special features of the…

This document is the second in a series of evaluative reports directed to evaluation needs of Home Start planners and administrators. It focuses on implementation data about programs gathered during local site visits conducted in the spring and fall of 1972. The two basic evaluative questions asked are: (1) What was Home Start intended by its…

This report describes the concept of open education, analyzes the content of the literature, and describes the development and final revision of a list of the characteristics of open education. The first half of the report describes the selection of literature to be examined for insight into open education, presents a framework in which to analyze…

The literary critic should be both a good detective and a naive observer in finding out what is going on in a literary work and passing on that knowledge to those wishing to use it in furthering their reading pleasure. Rather than formulating value judgments about a piece of literature, critics must use their experiences to illuminate important…

Shows that from 1893-1901 the major theme of "McClure's" Magazine was the success of eminent persons and how they achieved that success. (GW)

Examines Kadushin's earlier empirical efforts to determine the leading social critics and organizations of social criticism in America and investigates his theory through content analysis of leading journals of social criticism. (MH)

An analysis of coverage of Congress during 1973-74 in four major newspapers revealed that Congress received more coverage than the President, and the Senate received more coverage than the House of Representatives. (GW)

In a study of jointly-owned morning/evening newspapers in 96 United States cities, it was found that those morning/evening newspapers that were similar in content and appearance reached higher proportions of dual subscribers than those that were dissimilar. (GW)

Reports on a study of the number, type, and source of photographs featured in major metropolitan daily newspapers. (GW)

Reports on a study in which 255 editorials from a sample of California community colleges were categorized and evaluated. (GW)

The number of errors found in coverage of social issues was greater than that for general coverage and comparable to that for science coverage. (KS)

Outlines the purposes and the procedures involved in writing an analysis of a scientific/technical magazine. (JM)

Study of matched groups of chain and independent papers on the West Coast shows that chain papers have fewer argumentative editorials in controversial contexts on local topics. (KS)

This study examined how six experienced teachers got information about students' knowledge and used that information to adjust their instruction while tutoring the students in addition. Each teacher tutored five simulated students and one live student. (RB)