Explains how a computer and a large-screen television can help journalism instructors teach editing and writing skills. (FL)

Presents a how-to guide for producing student booklets with a word processor. Steps in the production process are discussed including formatting the text, layout, editing, and final paste-up and printing. (MBR)

This 11-article issue on quality book publishing (publication of intellectual and thought-provoking works as opposed to "popular" or "fad" works) covers books, publishing, and libraries in the information age; role of authors; editing; role of agents; agent and literary market; book production; marketing; promotion; and…

The concept of error, or mistake, is a sensitive and crucial issue in both second language learning and second language instruction. Error can play a constructive role in learning and, under some conditions, in teaching, and avoidance of error may be less productive than confrontation with it. (MSE)

Addresses these questions: (1) What are conference proceedings? (2) Why are they prepared? and (3) How are they prepared? Explains that, for editors, the processes of preparing conference proceedings has three major components: planning the proceedings, selecting the content, and processing the proceedings. (EL)

Stresses the fact that yearbook copy must be relevant to be effective and suggests methods of improving copywriting skills, including getting good quotes and using them effectively. (DF)

Content analysis of articles published in this journal was used to analyze research trends since 1910. Emphasis began with practical issues, moved to personal/social issues in the 1940s and 1950s, and concentrated on theoretical issues after 1970. Evaluation, motivation, and linguistics were the three top areas of recent interest. (BS)

Using a framework for analyzing manuscripts that appear in the higher education journal literature, eight core journals' publishing patterns for the period 1975-81 are examined. The institutional affiliations and roles of papers' senior authors are identified. (Author/MLW)

Discusses a method that reinforces and monitors "correct" writing and editing, reviews the rhetoric for "effective" writing, and demonstrates how specific technical writing tasks fit into an engineer's everyday writing. An example of a technical writing task used in sophomore engineering classes is included. (JN)

Recounts a senior technical writing student's disastrous graduation project, in which he was to assist a professor in the writing and editing of an article. (HTH)

Indicates that electronic equipment can produce a high quality newspaper at lower costs, according to an informal survey. (RB)

Student publications can be used in teaching editing and writing skills in technical writing courses. (RB)

The author of this paper, a writing teacher who is also writing a handbook for McGraw-Hill, finds herself in a conceptual, pedagogical quandary that leaves her feeling like a fraud. According to the paper, she sees her job as helping her students gain the editing skills they want, but she has not yet succeeded in integrating the teaching of…

Offers a rationale and several topic suggestions for a single feature story on page one of a high school newspaper. (TO)

Offers suggestions for constructing creative and valuable coverage of classes and class members in school yearbooks. (TO)