This paper offers a critical approach to television viewing that considers the literary and rhetorical impact of television programing. The methodology described is composed of three stages of criticism that are designed to examine and describe television drama: (1) the descriptive stage, in which the critic examines the plot, characters,…

This paper presents the results of a study done on all public access files, which consist of all the letters written to each of the six television stations and 21 radio stations in the Houston, Texas, market area. A content analysis approach using 19 categories of information was employed. The results are supported by six tables presenting overall…

A survey of 80 city and regional magazines was undertaken to examine articles of media criticism. Of those, 78.5% responded. A total of 420 articles were received and were divided according to subject and geographical distribution. A critical analysis of representative articles determined that they represented significant criticism as defined in…

A low-cost automatic classification method is reported that uses computer time in proportion to NlogN, where N is the number of information items and the base is a parameter, some barriers besides cost are treated briefly in the opening section, including types of intellectual resistance to the idea of doing classification by content-word…

This essay assesses the principal literature published on the theory of information science during 1971-1976. This literature is compared to the article, "From Information Science to Informatics: A Terminological Investigation," by Hans Wellisch. What has been written since Wellisch wrote was found to be not equal in quality to this…

Stylistic analysis by both rhetoricians and literary critics is incomplete, often subjective, impressionistic, and sometimes misleading. The ideal method is objective analysis, based on adequate verbal samples, which identifies and describes the style of any writer or speaker as distinctive to that person alone. In order to do this, the theories…

The professional library periodicals in Colorado were analyzed in terms of the type of information disseminated, user needs and the function of the various publications. The three data collection techniques used were: (1) content analysis, to answer general questions about the scope, type of article, news coverage, and special features of the…

This document is the second in a series of evaluative reports directed to evaluation needs of Home Start planners and administrators. It focuses on implementation data about programs gathered during local site visits conducted in the spring and fall of 1972. The two basic evaluative questions asked are: (1) What was Home Start intended by its…

This report describes the concept of open education, analyzes the content of the literature, and describes the development and final revision of a list of the characteristics of open education. The first half of the report describes the selection of literature to be examined for insight into open education, presents a framework in which to analyze…

The literary critic should be both a good detective and a naive observer in finding out what is going on in a literary work and passing on that knowledge to those wishing to use it in furthering their reading pleasure. Rather than formulating value judgments about a piece of literature, critics must use their experiences to illuminate important…

Shows that from 1893-1901 the major theme of "McClure's" Magazine was the success of eminent persons and how they achieved that success. (GW)

Examines Kadushin's earlier empirical efforts to determine the leading social critics and organizations of social criticism in America and investigates his theory through content analysis of leading journals of social criticism. (MH)

An analysis of coverage of Congress during 1973-74 in four major newspapers revealed that Congress received more coverage than the President, and the Senate received more coverage than the House of Representatives. (GW)

In a study of jointly-owned morning/evening newspapers in 96 United States cities, it was found that those morning/evening newspapers that were similar in content and appearance reached higher proportions of dual subscribers than those that were dissimilar. (GW)

Reports on a study of the number, type, and source of photographs featured in major metropolitan daily newspapers. (GW)