Facts on the grammar of Kazakh, spoken in Kazakhstan, are presented. They are intended as a guide, not an instructional text. Information is presented in the form of notes and word lists on the following topics: orthography (the Cyrillic alphabet, spelling reform, stylistic and dialectal alternations, common misspellings, and homographs);…

A study investigated the effects of presentation mode and type of content on young children's recall of nouns in a scripted narrative. Forty-nine children in the second month of first grade were presented a fictional narrative in which were embedded 18 target nouns classified as high-scripted, medium-scripted, or low-scripted. Subjects then viewed…

Most performer-writers accept the writing process simply as a means to an end: the shared performance event with a live audience. While writer-performers regard a script as more important than the performance, a solo performance is, however, a showcase of the artist's talent, and creating one's own text offers the performer artistic control. Some…

As part of a project to improve and expand the training opportunities available in vocational education programs through cooperative education, a series of media programs was developed. These programs were designed to aid coordinators in making suitable placement and improving the job orientation and training of student learners and to influence…

Students should be invited to write dramatic scripts rather than reporting or discussing. (JH)

Transcripts for each of four audiovisual presentations, components of the Career Planning Support System (CPSS), are contained in this package. (CPSS is a comprehensive guidance program management system designed to provide information for local high schools to design, implement, and evaluate an upgraded career guidance program. CPSS describes how…

This paper contains handouts and materials for use in a college level nonfiction television writing course. Following a description of the course and its assignments and texts, the major portion of the paper contains samples of various script formats, including a news commentary, a commercial advertisement, a documentary, and public and community…

The last of four related manuals describing the goals and methods of an established developmental theatre project at the University of Colorado, this manual discusses the processes involved in selecting and adapting scripts for specific audiences. The manual suggests ways to cut longer plays for school audiences, methods for organizing parts of…

The entries in this journal represent the second annual publication of selected material dealing with the topic of black theatre. Articles describe an evening with the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in Harlem, relate an interview with Vinie Burrows, explore the thinking of black scholars and artists on the elements of the African-American theatre…

This booklet is the correlated script for a 48-frame color filmstrip designed to expand the environmental experiences of urban school children and their teachers. Included throughout the script are related projects that encourage discovery activities inside and out of the classroom. Based upon the knowledge that over 75 percent of all United…

The major steps in the making of a film are presented in terms of events, time, cost, and technological developments resulting from the production. Details about pre-production and post-production procedures are also included. Appended are the shooting script, the shooting schedule, a sample of the director's shooting breakdown, and the final…

Because mass media form one of the most important means of adult education, this two-volume textbook teaches the educational uses of radio. Instructions and sample scripts are included for talk, interview, discussion, magazine, feature, and drama programs. Each section is followed by questions to test the student's memory of basic concepts and…

Bound in a slipcover rather than in signatures, this "book" is made up of thirteen separately bound booklets. The first booklet is an introduction to the use of film in the classroom both in teaching the filmic art and in increasing the visual literacy of students on the high school and early college levels. The twelve other booklets each treat a…

The purpose of this book is to acquaint the beginning filmmaker with the tools and basic principles of filmmaking so that a base can be built for future, creative filmmaking. The film camera is described and its operation discussed in detail in a first section, a second section considers film composition, a third section details film lighting, a…

The fundamentals of motion picture photography are introduced with a physiological explanation for the illusion of motion in a film. Film stock formats and emulsions, camera features, and lights are listed and described. Various techniques of exposure control are illustrated in terms of their effects. Photographing action with a stationary or a…