Book review

Douglas, S. J. (1994). Where the girls are: Growing up female with the mass mediay. New York: Times Books. 340 pages.

Lang, A. (Ed.). (1994). Measuring psychological responses to media messages. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 244 pages.

Cosby, C. O. (1994). Television's imageable influences: The self‐perceptions of young African Americans. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 172 pages.

Kern‐Foxworth, M. (1994). Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in advertising, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 205 pages.

Fiske, J. (1994). Media matters: Everyday culture and political change. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 253 pages.

Johnson, L. L. (1994). Toward competition in cable television. Cambridge, MA & Washington, DC: MIT Press & AEI Press. 214 pages.

Krattenmaker, T. G., & Powe, L. A., Jr. (1994). Regulating broadcast programming. Cambridge, MA & Washington, DC: MIT Press & AEI Press. 369 pages.

Moores, S. (1993). Interpreting audiences: The ethnography of media consumption. London: Sage. 140 pages.     

Statewide Articulation Agreements between High Schools and Community College Career and Technical Programs

Recent legislation requires increased linkages between all levels of educational institutions. Articulation agreements are critical to ensure a smooth transition for students, and statewide agreements afford students more options for continuing their education. High school and community college instructors were brought together in a statewide meeting to review curricula and determine community college courses for which high-school-program-completers meeting certain criteria, including a specified score on the statewide occupation-specific assessment, could receive credit. Thirty-three high school programs were selected for statewide articulation agreements, with at least one community college program allowing articulation with approximately 50 community college courses.     

Needs Assessments: An Integrated Assignment in Civic Service

An undergraduate social work program developed a service‐learning experience in partnership with a local United Way organization to complete a community needs assessment project. The experience integrated the curricula of a social work research methods course and a generalist‐macro practice course with the principles and actions of experiential and service‐ learning, evidence based practice, and civic responsibility. This integrated curricula project yielded practical, “real world” outcomes for the local community and learning outcomes for the students. Needs assessments conducted by social students resulted in particular groups of community citizens receiving targeted services from agencies receiving funding from United Way. Evidence obtained from the students who participated in this experience indicates that two important learning outcomes were achieved; a heightened awareness of the local community's resource system and a sense of connection to the local community, along with the enhancement of students ‘self‐esteem and increased self‐confidence in their abilities.     

Review Essay: Sustainable Scholarship and the Rhetoric of Medicine

The Preface to Confessions of an English Opium‐Eater constitutes a fine example of what Thomas De Quincey called style in its “ministerial” capacity. He achieved the ends of this style in two ways: first, he adopted a strategy of accommodation and challenge, whereby he accepted the reader's viewpoint only to undermine and replace it with another; second, his “licentious” style rehearsed the reader in the activity requisite to understand the difficult, involved text which followed.     

REVIEW ESSAY: Somatography

A History and Criticism of American Public Address. vols. Edited by William Norwood Brigance. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., Inc., 1943; pp. xvii + 1030. $10.00.

Dictionary of World Literature: Criticism, Forms, Technique. Edited by Joseph T. Shipley. New York: The Philosophical Library, 1943; pp. xvi + 633. $7.50.

Speech in Education: A Guide for the Classroom Teacher. By Ollie L. Backus. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1943; pp. 358 + xv. $2.75.

Gesture and Environment. By David Efron. Sketches by Stuyvesant Van Veen. Foreword by Franz Boas. New York: King's Crown Press, 1941; pp. 184 + x.

The Film Sense. By Sergei Eisenstein. Translated and edited by Jay Leyda. Harcourt, Brace; pp. 288. $3.00.

Pioneering in Psychology. By Carl E. Seashore. University of Iowa Studies, No. 398. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1942; pp. 232.

A Federal Sales Tax. Compiled by E. R. Nichols. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1942; pp. 259. $1.25. Wagesand Prices Complied by Robert E. Summers. New York :The H. W. Wilson Co., 1942; pp 219.$1.25.

The Defective in Speech. By Mildred Freberg Berry and Jon Eisenson. New York: F. S. Crofts &; Co., 1942; pp. 426. $3.00.

Interpretative Reading. By Sara Lowery and Gertrude E. Johnson. New York. D. Appleton‐Century, 1942; pp. xx + 607.

Inner Springs. By Frances Lester Warner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943; pp. 189.

The Penguin Hansard, Vols. 1–5. Taken verbatim from the House of Commons Official Report of Parliamentary Debates. Har‐mondsworth, Middlesex, England, and New York: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1940–1942; pp. app. 300 in each vol. $.25.

The General Basic English Dictionary. Edited by C. K. Ogden with the help of a committee of the Orthological Institute. New York: W. W. Norton &; Co., 1942; pp. x + 441. $2.50.

War Words: Recommended Pronunciations. By W. Cabell Greet. New York: Published for the Columbia Broadcasting System by Columbia University Press, 1943; pp. 137. $1.50.

English Usage. By Arthur G. Kennedy. New York: D. Appleton‐Century Company, 1942; pp. xi, 166. $1.25.

The Best One‐Act Plays of 1942. Edited by Margaret Mayorga. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1943; pp. 265. $2.50.

25 Non‐Royalty American Comedies. Compiled by William Kozlenko. New York: Greenberg, 1943; pp. 430. $2.50.

The Writer's Radio Theatre, 1941. Edited by Norman S. Weiser. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943. $2.00.

Speeches and Documents in American History, Vol. IV: 1914–1939. (No. 491, The World's Classics.) Selected and edited by Robert Birley. London: Oxford University Press, 1942; pp. xix + 300. $.95.     

Review Essay: Post-Traumatic Memories around the Globe

The Work of Preaching. By Arthur I. Hqyt. New edition. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. Cloth, pp. 389, Price $1.50.

Speech‐making. By R. D. T. Hollister. Ann Arbor, Michigan, George Wahr, 1918. Cloth, pp. 386.

Amateur and Educational Dramatics. By Evelyn Hilliard, Theodora McCormick, and Kate Oglebay. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. Cloth, pp. 169. Price $1.00.

The Aesthetics of Motion. By George H. Browne. The Turner Publishing Co., New Ulm, Minn. Pp. 46.

Winning Orations (in Contests of the Inter‐Collegiate Prohibition Association). Edited By Harry S. Warner, Chicago, Inter‐Collegiate Prohibition Association, 1917. Paper, pp. 184. Price 35c.

War Shock. By Eder, M.D. P. Blakiston's Sons &; Co., Philadelphia, 1917 Pp. 152.

Oral English. (The bulletin of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn). Vol. 12, No. 8. October, 1917. Paper, pp. 55.     

Understanding the Why Behind the How in Reading Instruction

One of the most critical pedagogical areas for student success is reading development and the use of reading to learn in the content areas. Teachers’ knowledge and the materials, methods, and strategies employed are essential factors in students’ abilities to read. In their inquiry study, the authors examined the congruence between the content of preservice literacy methods courses at their college and the practices of recent alumni. Although practice varied for each teacher, alumni students emphasized some components of reading over others, often because those components were stressed in their college courses. These findings led the authors to rethink why and how reading methods are taught to preservice teachers.     

Postgraduate coursework in Australia: issues emerging from university and industry collaboration

Coursework masters degrees in Australia have experienced rapid, decentralised growth since deregulation at the end of the 1980s. The result is an extraordinarily high level of diversity and some confusion as to standards, strategic positioning, purpose and educational approaches. Throughout this period of growth, a sense that large-scale (often distance-education based) collaboration between universities and with industry would be beneficial has not always led to successful outcomes. Using a new collaborative, industry-funded postgraduate coursework program as a case study, this paper describes the issues that decision-makers need to address and evaluates the challenges and benefits of the coursework masters in higher education. The outcomes of industry surveys, student interviews and action research suggest that postgraduate coursework can facilitate technology transfer and aid capacity building, through mechanisms similar to ‘mode 2’ research. With some additional systems to ensure sustainability and standards, this could position coursework masters to be uniquely valuable nationally.

Telephone Interviewing Practices within Academic Libraries

This study explores the use of telephone interviews within academic libraries by surveying the 112 academic institutional members of the Association of Research Libraries to identify how telephone interviews are utilized. By comparing the literature to the research results, the authors conclude with best practices for telephone interviews.