Speculates on what might be gained by using three of Robert Cormier's novels ("I Am the Cheese,""The Chocolate War," and "After the First Death") in the high school classroom. Suggests that the novels can be used not only as compelling literary works but also as a means of helping students understand what is happening…

Analyzes government and print media portrayals of the Reagan administration's policy during Irangate. Finds that the print media continued to fulfill its "watchdog" function by providing critical portrayals of United States policy despite the Reagan administration's attempt to "spin" its own version of Irangate. Examines the…

Finds no liberal news bias in the selection of sound bites by the candidates themselves. Notes that almost half the sound bite time was devoted to noncandidates and produced results consistent with a hypothesis of liberal news bias. Finds that the Bush-Quayle ticket received a substantially higher percentage of negative bites than did the other…

Studies duplication and differentiation in local television news. Finds that local producers show a preference for sensational studies that feature acts of sex and violence and are easy to explain. Shows that little differentiation in topical areas exist for these stories built of concrete fact, but that local television news tends to…

Analysis of characteristics of rational numbers in magazines written for children, teenagers, and adults indicated that difficult mathematical concepts that appear in the media are much more prevalent in adults' magazines than in the others. Discusses numeracy demands of everyday life. Appendix contains coding scheme. (34 references) (Author/MKR)

Outlines literature on suicide notes of older adults. Presents author's own lifespan research related to elderly, which indicated that long-term instability was critical in understanding suicide in elderly; that indirect expressions were much less frequently observed in notes of elderly than in those of younger adults; and that older males often…

Finds that 86 percent of commercials shown on "Channel One" were for products, and 14 percent were public service announcements; values emphasized were leisure/pleasure, appearance/sexuality, wisdom, and independence; and dominant themes were being popular, having friends, having fun, and being attractive. (SR)

Reviews articles on "content reading" published from 1969 to 1991 in the journal "Reading Teacher." Discusses instructional methods and techniques of content reading and reading materials. Offers a list of topics for future consideration. (PRA)

"Plain English" practitioners advocate rewriting texts to increase readability. However, a comparison of sections of an academic text with corresponding Plain English "translations" shows that, although readability may be increased, significant changes in meaning occur. (SK)

Reveals, through a content analysis, trends in the topics that have been addressed and authors who have published in the more than 2,700 articles that appeared in "The Reading Teacher," volumes 1-44. Describes how the data were collected, analyzed, and interpreted across all volumes of "The Reading Teacher." (MG)

A contextual analysis approach was used to explore the semantic, syntactic, and discourse properties of the conjunction "and." Results are discussed in terms of phrasal coordination, and it is shown that "and" occurs with a high frequency in the spoken/written comparison narrative texts examined, with a density of 26.4 to 66.3 tokens per 1,000…

Describes study of college students that was conducted to determine the effect on an information retrieval task of different ways of organizing users' knowledge. The effect of user characteristics on information interactions is discussed, and the note-taking instructions designed to generate different organizations of knowledge are explained. (20…

States that many economics textbooks define economic rent in 1 of the 2 ways discussed 30 years ago by E. J. Mishan. Contends that the 2 definitions are not substantially different, rendering the dichotomy invalid. Examines 15 microeconomics textbooks to determine whether they validate Mishan's categories of rent definitions. (DB)

Describes a content analysis study that used Kohlberg's theory of moral development to determine the stage of moral development represented by protagonists in Young Adult Choices (i.e., lists of titles preferred by adolescent readers) fiction and the relationship to the level of moral reasoning of real-life young adults. (Contains 20 references.)…

Assessed institutional research productivity in counseling psychology by totaling credits for articles published from 1983 through 1992 in "Journal of Counseling Psychology,""Counseling Psychologist,""Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,""Journal of Vocational Behavior," and "Journal of Counseling and Development." Found that several…