The newsletter as an adult educator's tool should inform, promote, guide, and coordinate. Based on Extension Service newsletters, this report presents a number of guidelines for newsletter editors. Among them are checking the costs of producing a newsletter, considering the subject, audience, and objective of the newsletter, and what the audience…

Responds to Karl Koenke's article on handwriting in the November 1986 issue of "The Reading Teacher" and offers an alternative opinion on handwriting instruction based on instruction methods in the United Kingdom. (JC)

Evaluation results are presented for five braille printers. The evaluation is based on extensive testing and data derived from a panel of 37 braille readers who considered noise level, identification/labeling and buttons, audio indicators, setting parameters, braille quality, documentation, and manufacturer's comments. (CB)

Chronicles the history of text conventions (punctuation, capitalization, and typefaces) both by discussing and using them. (MS)

Explains the costs, uses, and options of desktop publishing for the business communications community. (MS)

Presents a how-to guide for producing student booklets with a word processor. Steps in the production process are discussed including formatting the text, layout, editing, and final paste-up and printing. (MBR)

Copyright, trademark, libel, privacy, and contract laws are continuing to grow in complexity. In the case of a dispute, the main questions center on the damage done and the motives behind the publication. Four categories discussed include: authorship, ownership, honor, and privacy. (MLW)

The rapid proliferation of personal computers on many campuses has raised a number of questions as to how best to support them. An approach based upon network service machines is discussed. These services include mail, printing, plotting, batch execution, file storage, etc. (Author/MLW)

Questions the current trend of publishing modern classics of children's literature in lush, expensive, newly illustrated editions. (FL)

In this article materials were geared to the ability levels of young students, who learned about intaglio printing, a process that involved engraving in a hard material. (Author/RK)

This publication contains classroom-tested teaching ideas. For grades K-4, "'Blessed Ted-fred': Famous Fathers Write to Their Children" uses American Memory for primary source letters written by Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander Graham Bell to their children. For grades 5-8, "Found Poetry and the American Life Histories…

Article gives the outline for materials, equipment, and the process for children to make prints in art class. (GB)

A small press is, essentially, an enterprise dedicated to overcoming routine publishing attitudes. Reviewing services, reference aids, bookstores, and publishers' addresses are included in this review of small press publications for 1973. (Author/SM)