Designed for students who produce newspapers and newsmagazines in junior high, middle, and elementary schools, this booklet is both a scorebook and a fundamentals text. The scorebook provides realistic criteria for judging publication excellence at these educational levels. All the basics for good publications are included in the text of the…

Although the suppression in 1917 of "The Masses," an influential Socialist magazine, has been depicted as an American tragedy, such a narrow interpretation ignores the bizarre, confused, often comic developments and episodes that attended the magazine's end. A reexamination of the demise of "The Masses" has been made to show…

A total of 123 upper-level and graduate students in journalism completed a questionnaire on beliefs about newspaper work. Most of the students were in advanced writing and editing courses, while 32 were in magazine courses. Questions in the survey dealt with beliefs related to James Grunig's theory of information systems. Factor analysis suggested…

THIS JOURNAL PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A YEAR FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF READING INSTRUCTION AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LEVELS CONTAINS ORIGINAL ARTICLES, REVIEWS OF ARTICLES, AND AN EDITORIAL SECTION OF BRIEF STATEMENTS OF IDEAS AND PROBLEMS RELEVANT TO READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS INSTRUCTION. THE SPRING 1968 ISSUE PRESENTS A DISCUSSION OF 10 WAYS…

A REPORT ISSUED BY THE ISRAELI NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES INDICATES THAT MANY OF THEIR CURRENT PROJECTS ARE INVESTIGATING CULTURALLY DEPRIVED ISRAELI CHILDREN. TOPICS INCLUDE THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, LEARNING PSYCHOLOGY, AND FAMILY AND KINDERGARTEN BACKGROUNDS OF THESE CHILDREN AS WELL AS THE PREPARATION OF…

After a 1977 survey reflected the importance of graphics education for news students, a study was developed to investigate the state of graphics education in the whole field of journalism. A questionnaire was sent to professors and administrators in four print-oriented professional fields of education: magazine, advertising, public relations, and…

This is the fifth annual report of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), covering the period July 1, 1975-June 30, 1976. Supporting studies described include: the role of the Library of Congress in the national network; the impact of Federal funding programs on public libraries; a national inventory of library…

The guide identifies over 75 sources of book reviews in the reference department of McLennan Library at McGill University as of 1977. Describing many standard reference books, the guide was designed to assist students looking for book reviews and to illustrate the variety of sources for reviews in the McLennan Library. Section one, Major Sources…

This annotated bibliography of current counseling and educational literature provides information about the following areas: (1) occupations; (2) educational, vocational, and personal guidance; (3) guidance administration and procedures; (4) student aids; (5) free or inexpensive guidance material; (6) teacher aids; (7) adult education and the…

Recently issued or revised reference materials in the education field are listed in this annotated bibliography. Under the general reference section are listed dictionaries, biographical directories, personnel and institutional directories, and other specialized directories. Other sections cover federal programs, statistical sources, education…

To explore the demographic, professional and ideational dimensions of educational-journal editors and to investigate publishing processes in general, questionnaires were sent to a list of journal editors and in-depth interviews were held with eight editors, two each from research, scholarly, professional, and association publications.…

This issue of the "Arizona English Bulletin" contains 38 articles related to popular culture and the teaching of English. The articles discuss such topics as language in the popular arts, establishing a popular culture library, defining sexism in popular culture, detective literature and its uses in the traditional classroom, popular…

Emphasizing reference resources for ethnological research on Canadian American Indians and Eskimos, this guide constitutes a revised and expanded edition of an earlier student's guide entitled "Canadian Ethnology" and includes both reference sources and annotated bibliographic references for the following: (1) Handbooks (8 references);…

Intended to acquaint educators with various materials that may be used in the classroom to enhance the American Indian student's self-concept by acquainting him with the richness and variety of his cultural heritage, this bibliography cites 896 books, audiovisual aids, and periodicals about the Navajo and Zuni tribes. The materials, published…

While there is certainly an abundance of excellent material concerning the world's press today, since World War II there has been an absence of any type of systematic synthesis of this information which might be used as a text or reference book by persons interested in the broad aspects of international communication. This book is intended to…