Describes a system in which the microcomputer is used to analyze athletic performance recorded on film and provide data on body movements to athletes and their coaches. Equipment, software, and one application of the system are discussed. (JJD)

Found that communication journal articles cite studies in psychology as often as in communication and that, since 1965, most of the citations to articles outside of communication were no longer current. Discusses nonreciprocity in information exchange, selective borrowing, information lag, and the influence of psychology on communication. (PD)

Focuses on the news coverage of the International Program for the Development of Communications (IPDC) Conference held in Mexico, January 1982. However, the IPDC is also analyzed in relation to the evolution of the international communication debate. (PD)

Reveals that portrayals of handicapped individuals occur far less frequently in basal readers than they do in children's literature. (FL)

Surveys children's picture-story sex books and parents' child-guidance manuals from the early 1900s to the present and reveals the twentieth century changes in approaches to sex education. (HOD)

Examines the readability and content of adolescent literature about Native Americans from northern and western Canada. (AEA)

Examined images of aging women depicted in periodical advertising over a 10-year period. Analyzed content for frequency, products involved, setting, value orientation, and change over time. Found older women in less than 1% of the advertisements, and no significant changes from 1967-1977. (Author/JAC)

Identifies the additions, deletions, and changes in the reprinted versions of King's classic speech. (Serves both as a warning that published speeches cannot be depended upon to preserve the original text and as a source of reference for teachers using Dr. King.s speech in classroom study.) (PD)

Presents a series of exercises designed to provide freshman composition students with a base for analyzing works rhetorically, to point out how language can be used persuasively, and to illustrate how satire functions. (FL)

Comparing the conception of human development found in the educational theories of Plato and Rousseau, it is found that the nature of childhood in Rousseau's "Emile" so resembles the account of child development in Plato's "Laws" that any difference claimed between them must be one of degree. (Author/SJL)

This is a collection of presentations given at an all-day conference on children's books as reflections of contemporary American problems and lifestyles. The meeting was held at Drexel University and sponsored by the School of Library and Information Science and The Free Library of Philadelphia. (Author/LLS)

Clarifies the meaning of the life skills approach by looking at appropriate content and methods. The content of the life skills approach includes the themes of knowing and developing oneself and effective communication and relationships with others. (Author/BEF)

Analyzes five basal readers and 10 adolescent novels to determine the occurrence of three types of language styles or registers: formal, informal, and technical/special. Concludes that the basal readers contained examples of all three types of registers while the novels contained relatively few examples of technical/special language. (FL)

Discusses value of leading Spanish readers including their sources, language, organization, instructional exercises, vocabulary building, and oral and written exercises. (BK)

Analysis of the coverage given by 35 newspapers to United States-Soviet Union relations during 1934-41 reveals that newspapers with the most interest in foreign affairs expressed the opinion that Stalin had abandoned the idea of world revolution, while those with less interest viewed him as an imperialist. (FL)