USA: Delmar, Centage Learning, Clifton Park, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01730
Notes:
"As communicators, we are caretakers of an industry - one of the most important industries in the history of humankind. It is our duty as students and teachers of agriculture to learn, as efficiently and thoroughly as we can, the skills needed to tell a positive story about agriculture through words, pictures and Web site content. This book will help you in that goal." (p. xiii)
James F. Evans Collection; Paper presented at the International Meeting of Agricultural Communicators in Education; 1990 July 16; St. Paul, MN, A lack of theory, models, and methods in the agricultural science news writing process spurred the initial investigation of this specialized writing process. Data were collected via process-tracing methods of a minute-by-minute observation of a farm magazine writer's writing process. The researcher used a protocol chart to record the nature and duration of the social-cognitive behaviors of the five stories. Results showed these cognitive behaviors dominated the writing process: organize, generate, compose, finalize, and edit language. The peak of cognitive behaviors occurred during the middle time period. The social-individual category showed a predominance of talking with associates while the social-organizational category showed a predominance of consulting documents. Cognition is the hub activity, significantly following social-individual and social-organizational behaviors. A potential model of the agricultural science news writing process was developed. (original)
USA: Oxford University Press, New York City, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06837
Notes:
Includes perspectives about reporting techniques used in the CBS documentary, "Harvest of Shame." Also refers to communications impacts of the classic book, Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson.
