Author reports that Kansas State has offered a news writing course for agricultural students for more than a decade, and with good results.. Believes a course in news writing should not be a universal requirement in the agricultural college curriculum, but emphasizes skills in English.
12 pages., Via open access online., Authors examined the difficulty of teaching contemporary students of journalism to report on complex topics like science and the environment. They subjected 120 undergraduate students to a strategy that combined visual representations of abstract concepts, media texts, and experiential peer interactions. Findings indicated positive outcomes on comprehension and demonstrations of critical analysis from this pedagogical approach.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26255
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From the Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, via Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. 2 pages., Describes a University of Nebraska class project in which journalism students covered rural and small-town issues in central and western Nebraska.
