Reports on the use of videoscreens at daily newspapers in Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. Discusses the unchanged role of reporter, the changing role of the editor, and the changing relationship between newsroom staff and the back shop. (JMF)

Points out the need for accurate communications in today's office. Discusses two types of errors made in written communications: those detected by visual analysis and by content analysis. Examines recognizing the need for accuracy, correcting mistakes, and how to teach students proofreading and editing skills. (CT)

College students' subjective evaluations of newspaper articles became increasingly negative as errors of logic, word use, and omission increased. (FL)

Discusses the results of two surveys among newspaper editors and readers about newspaper attributes and readers' interest. Results indicate a compromise caused by the marketing approach. (JMF)

Proposes that scholastic journalists should not shortchange the importance of words under, beside, or below photographs. Notes that in-depth cutlines and captions for scholastic publications and photographs can help hook the reader into the feature on the page; extend the visual coverage of a photograph's content; and give readers specific…

Provides a historical review of copymarking, a conceptual description of various types of copymarks, and a taxonomy of copymarks used in electronic conversion systems. Issues raised by the development of document interchange standards and conversion systems are reviewed, and implications for future research on documents and document processing are…

Describes the author's experiences as an editor of children's books. Some of the fundamentals of juvenile nonfiction are summarized, and several books from the 1960s, '70s and '80s are mentioned. Recognition of nonfiction works by children's book award committees is also discussed. (MES)

Discusses the origins of librarians' concern with their image and reviews an analysis of the issue in the literature from 1921-78. The image presented in three major national library journals--American Libraries, Library Journal, and Wilson Library Bulletin--are then examined together with opinions of the journal editors for the period from…

Users of desktop publishing may be distracted from clear communication by the advanced features of the technology. Common problems include irregularly-shaped blocks of copy, angled type, excessive underlining, widows and orphans, unequal spacing, excessive hyphenation, exaggerated tabs and indents, grammatical errors, cramped logos and addresses,…

Suggests that technical writing is the most challenging profession in the world and sometimes the most boring. List 35 things that the field knows about technical communication (on such topics as audience, editing, writing style, graphics, and training). Suggests that there may be nothing left to invent in the field of technical communication. (RS)

Suggests that editors resist the common urge to squeeze paragraphs together to save space. Discusses the difference between writing and editing paragraphs, topic sentences, connectives, levels of discourse, what paragraphs do for the writer, how long paragraphs should be, and the flexibility of paragraph structure. (RS)

Discusses the ways that the word "quality" can be used in English, as either a noun or an adjective. Outlines numerous ways the word is currently used. (HB)

Discusses briefly the author's frustrations in communicating scientific and technical concepts and communicating with those who write such technical material. (SR)

Makes suggestions for editing technical proposals. Discusses the marketeers, the hierarchy of hype, how to save days, managing story boards, expediting a laborious process, teaching engineers to write, writing incrementally, the art group, and the editing task. Argues that the best proposals come from starting to write early. (SR)

Reviews the research literature to show that academics and practicing editors do not share the same view of the editing process: academics emphasize "intentional diagnoses," and practitioners perform "rule-based" editing. Discusses editing in the workplace, and notes that the editor can be of most service to the writer through involvement in the…