The focal points of this study are the role perceptions and the environments of women's page editors from daily and weekly newspapers across the United States. In the role perception areas, equal rights, discrimination, and the role of women in journalism are examined. Salaries, education, college major and minor, and years in the profession are…

This document examines the use of photography and the printed word to make visual statements in student publications. It is written for journalists who are writers and editors as well as for photojournalists and for student journalists interested in increasing the quality of the school newspaper, magazine, or yearbook. The role of the photographer…

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…

This volume provides a broad introduction to the roles of the four principal media of mass communications--the newspaper, the magazine, radio, and television--and presents the fundamentals of writing for each of these media. Each medium is examined with respect to its unique position and influence in American society and is compared, for editorial…

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

The reasons for writing or not writing statements of editorial mission, goals, and policy are discussed. The editors of two commercial-magazines that don't have a written editorial policy discuss why. (MLW)

Offers examples of how the Red and Black, an independent student newspaper at the University of Georgia, covers student activities. (JK)

Advocates a collaborative relationship between student reporters and faculty editors, preserving editorial involvement during the writing process rather than after the story has been written. (HTH)

Describes the American Association of Publishers' (AAP) Electronic Manuscript Project, which was charged with the development of standards to facilitate the exchange and processing of electronically created documents, and explains the application of generic tags developed for descriptive markup that can be used with a variety of technologies and…

A workshop in which faculty meet with their peers to critically review their work-in-progress, conference papers, or journal articles before they are submitted is described. The program has served to assist faculty in making work more publishable, improve skills, and encourage professional development activities. (MSE)

Outlines the advantages of computerization for both individual writers on staff and for the journalism teacher and advisor. (CRH)

Work of students identified as basic writers was studied and analyzed to determine students' perceptions about composition. Results suggest that progress is linked to the ability to develop and elaborate ideas while writing, to the ability to generate acceptable English automatically, and to the ability to rewrite, edit, and revise. (Author/LMO)

Briefly describes use of off-site staffing--indexers, abstractors, editors--in the production of two major databases: Management Contents and The Computer Data Base. Discussion covers the production sequence; database administrator; off-site indexer; savings (office space, furniture and equipment costs, salaries, and overhead); and problems…

Describes the University of Hawaii's writing workshop, a supplemental service of the English department that offers tutorial sessions on a drop-in, voluntary basis. (FL)

This study explores ways of helping fifth grade students edit their work appropriately for their grade level. The use of Daily Oral Language, grammar worksheets, or the reliance on the teacher to edit were eliminated. Instead, more direction for students was provided through the use of checklists, peer editing, and word processing on a computer.…