Describes methods for producing collections of student writing, including such aspects as anthology book covers, layout, artwork, lettering, print runs, headlines and editorial philosophy. Also provides tips for successful collecting, and alternatives to an actual anthology, such as broadsides, poetry postcards, tiny books, videotaped readings,…

Despite the recent increased importance of other fund-raising devices, direct mail still remains an effective basic component of annual fund campaigns. Direct mail product, planning and designing direct mail, writing model letters, handling mail, direct mail effectiveness, and new annual fund are described. (Author/MLW)

Presents insights of what does and doesn't work in school library local area network (LAN) printing in terms of five "myths": (1) "You need a network to share a printer;" (2) "Printing is much faster on a network;" (3) "All printers are created equal;" (4) "If one is good, two are better;" (5) "I'll never learn." (AEF)

States that sequencing and printing software eliminates the barriers to students composing music. Describes "Master Tracks Pro," a sequencing program, and "Rhapsody," a printing program. Includes a lesson plan for setting pentatonic music to a poem. (CMK)

This instructional unit designed to develop higher-level cognitive skills in fifth grade students focuses on a mid-nineteenth century newspaper from the Old Stater Print Shop. Purposes include: (1) to compare and contrast a century-old newspaper with a modern-day paper; (2) to begin planning for a newspaper and to organize a newspaper staff; (3)…

This curriculum guide outlines three credits of study, one credit for each of the grade levels 10, 11, and 12. Intended as an optional study area, the program provides awareness and exploration for those students who aspire to postsecondary study and introduces skills to those who wish to explore trades and technologies in employment after school.…

This document contains the occupational duty/task lists for 10 occupations in the printing series. Each occupation is divided into a number of duties. A separate page for each duty in the occupation lists the tasks in that duty along with its code number and columns to indicate whether that particular duty has been taught and to provide space for…

Three directors of TAFE (Technical and Future Education) are represented in this publication. Speeches by Lyall P. Fricker of TAFE, South Australia are: "Innovation in TAFE" and "Tertiary Education for All." Speeches by Allan Pattison of TAFE, New South Wales include "TAFE in New South Wales: Past Achievements and Future…

This text is an attempt to cover all areas in preparing deaf students to function in an in-plant printing office. Specific practice tasks are provided in all areas. The titles of the eight units are Introduction to In-Plant Printing and Cold Composition (four lessons), Paper (five lessons), Cold Composition Devices and Machines (fourteen lessons),…

This study analyzes the alternatives for meeting the publishing needs of the Naval Education and Training Command in the 1980s. The use of current, state-of-the-art equipment, including text editors, phototypesetters, and graphic scanners is explored, and five alternatives to the current publishing system are proposed. Based on an economic…

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…

The following course outline has been prepared as a guide to help the student become aware of and perform operations concerned with offset lithography, intaglio printing, screen process printing, and the allied occupations. A prerequisite to the course is "Meet the Press." The total number of hours of instruction is 45 of which…

Developed as a quinmester unit for the high school on yearbook and magazine layout, this guide provides the teacher with suggested teaching strategies for a study of the theory and practice of page layout, photo cropping and editing, use of color and special effects, copy fitting and headline writing and fitting, and principles of typography.…

Papers presented at the seminar include an introduction to information processing which describes some techniques for use of the computer; the analysis of information systems and its role in the development of information systems; the effect on systems performance of building design and environmental standards; the concept of traditional printing…

The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…