Examines the textbooks currently available to secondary teachers of English as sources of materials, ideas, and activities. (RB)

Twenty-two advertisements from "Reader's Digest" and twenty-two from "Retirement Living" magazine were analyzed in order to determine the way in which old people are portrayed. The advertisements were found to support the common societal stereotypes that old people are unproductive, prefer to associate with other old people rather than with…

Referring to contributions by P. Mohr and H. G. Hoffmann, six authors discuss the problem of the content of textbooks and reading texts. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Shows how the social values and cultural images presented on television influence human thought and behavior. See CS 702 316 for availability information. (RB)

Information science has in recent years developed an algorithmic procedure for content analysis of abstracts which includes setting up a metalanguage for a particular field of knowledge. Such a procedure may aid in solving problems of automatic text analysis in machine translation. (TL)

The Nolan and Heffernan (1974) analysis of the Rural Development Act of 1972 (RDA-72) is discussed. (NQ)

Discusses the graphics and visual layout of high school newspapers winning the 1975 Gallup Award for excellence in scholastic journalism. (RB)

Concludes that traditional and modern, renamed women's pages are not meeting the contemporary needs of American women. (RB)

Suggests ideas for planning the content of a school magazine, provides guidelines for evaluating stories for entry in the magazine, outlines procedures for training the advertising staff, and presents tips for layout design. (RB)

Noting that confrontation is a fundamental element of debate, a study examined the confrontational nature of a 1980 presidential debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan by analyzing its verbal and visual context as presented through television. By means of videotapes, still photographs, and a typed transcript, each instance of a verbal…

The three television networks, acting under severe restrictions imposed by the Iranian government, all provided comprehensive coverage of the hostage crisis. A study was conducted to examine what, if any, salient differences arose or existed in this coverage from November 5, 1979, until January 15, 1980. A research procedure combining qualitative…

Defining development as a participatory process within a society aimed at creating or maintaining social structures and institutions that allow a society's present and future needs to be met, a study was undertaken to discover what kind of treatment was given to development news by Third World media. Eleven foreign newspapers from a university…

A study was conducted to assess the indications in print of news borrowing (reporting news distributed by second hand or government controlled sources) in the 1970s, and to examine the relationship between borrowed news and the restrictions and reductions in newspapers' overseas news staff. The "New York Times" and the "Chicago…