The editor of the Journal of Reading suggests that tenure committees rely too much on the judgment of the editorial boards of refereed journals and not enough on their own opinions about the worth of a colleague's writing. (MKM)

Describes the qualities that make Susie Hardie, the editor-in-chief of the 1976 "Colonel," yearbook of the Fleming High School in Roanoke, Virginia, an effective staff member. (KS)

Investigates the private criteria people use in judging whether or not to make particular arguments. Determines the relationship between self-monitoring and the use of editing criteria. Finds that person-centered issues and discourse competence rules are extremely important, and that the self-monitoring scale has serious psychometric problems. (MS)

Provides a practical discussion for an editing course of the manner in which editors and writers routinely consult reference tools as they work and use what they find as the basis for editorial judgment and creativity. (HTH)

Concludes that public relations people view editors' newspaper positions fairly accurately but that the reverse is not true. (FL)

Describes computer program in Microsoft Basic which performs the following transformation and printout functions on downloaded files: removes field labels and citation numbers from file; removes search statements, error messages, and sign-off/billing output; allows operator to create headings; allows operator to view, delete, or print file from…

The Datafusion Analysis System (DAS) is a new type of system that allows the interaction of conventional video equipment with a minicomputer. (Author/ER)

Suggests that editing is both a skill that can be taught and an attitude for accuracy. (RB)

Details a study showing that copyeditors working on newspapers that have had video display terminals for at least two years edited more slowly, but made fewer errors than those who edited on paper. (FL)

Offers a model of the writing process that is based on a review of recent research and the author's experiences as a writer and teacher. Explains these stages in the writing process: (1) prewriting, (2) exploratory writing, (3) developmental writing, (4) external revision, and (5) "last looks." (RL)

Discusses how authors choose the kind of journal to submit an article to and how they write different kinds of articles for different kinds of journals, explores the range of journals available, discusses the editor's functions and "refereeing," and describes the total publishing process, from manuscript receipt to journal issue. (Author)

Elsevier, the largest publisher of scientific journals, has removed journal articles from its database, often without providing reasons. The usual reason for removing an article is fear of copyright litigation, but critics of the policy fear that information gaps or misleading lack of data will develop. (SLD)