Compares the order of acquisition of German syntactic structures in the untutored adult learner with the order of presentation of these structures in seven, commonly used German textbooks in four-year, postsecondary institutions. (EKN)

Examines the Western territories that had newspapers in 1880 with those that did not to determine the factors that led potential publishers to accept or to reject a location. (FL)

Describes the Archive Retrieval and Analysis System (ARRAS), which provides rapid access to textual data and fast, flexible, open-ended analysis of individual texts; explains why the system should be viewed as a new kind of working environment; and suggests that such systems may influence users' intellectual point of view. (MBR)

Reports on three studies that investigated the relationship between message credibility and distortion in the context of a faculty unionization campaign. Concludes that comparisons of this election campaign with others will aid in understanding how people form impressions of sources and messages and select and employ campaign strategies and…

Compliments are not only common daily discourse, but they are also used in companies, government agencies, and universities as written recommendations to determine hiring and promotion decisions. This report analyzes compliments as to structure, form, and content; replies they evoke; characteristics of compliment givers and receivers; and manner…

Analyzed inducements offered in brochures advertising the volunteer army. Found that (1) the appeals focused on education benefits, military/civilian job training, and economic incentives and (2) few appeals featured the intrinsic satisfactions of military service. Considers the implications in terms of recruitment and retention problems. (PD)

Examines the strength of Prospero's feelings against those who wronged him and uses that as a focus for a consideration of the way in which readings and interpretations change. (CRH)

Discusses the relationship between the problems involved in the creation of expert systems by knowledge engineers, i.e., experts at translating human abilities and knowledge into computer programs, and the major issues dealt with in the planning/analysis phases of instructional development. (MBR)

Investigated theme development and role types in eight same-sex, self-analytic groups with male or female leadership, through the use of The General Inquirer, a computerized program of content analysis. All groups, male and female, showed a significant increase in the use of AFFILIATION words over time. (BH)

Analyzes economics texts and examines range of meanings conveyed by the simple conditional form and the expression of conditional meaning. Concludes that relationship between economic concepts and their verbal expressions cannot be correlated. Authors suggest that teachers of English for economics and teachers of economics need to recognize this…

Suggests that audience-determined measures used to assess television newscast quality are linked to popularity and not to the substance or the technical quality of the programs. (FL)

Discusses the effectiveness and reliability of the cloze procedure and its usefulness as an advertising copy-testing technique. Concludes that it can distinguish more memorable from less memorable messages. (FL)

Concludes that the CBS television network gave the most and the NBC network the least coverage to Watergate in 1972 but that none of the networks treated it as a major story until 1973. (FL)

Concludes that after Rhodesia hired a public relations firm to advise it, negative comment about that country declined sharply in the "New York Times," although news of violence there remained virtually the same. (FL)

Concludes that nominal writing style, substituting nouns for verbs, adversely affects reader interest and reading speed. (FL)