This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: the role and function of the California Journalism Articulation Committee; international communication as an academic career for journalism professors; network television news discourse; the content of news messages read and viewed in Ohio during the 1972 Presidential campaign; attitudes revealed by student newspaper editorials at five liberal arts colleges between 1963 and 1973; nonverbal determinants of a television newscaster's credibility; differences in cognitive styles and personality variables among graduate students in journalism, law, and business; influences on the news decision-making of foreign correspondents in Asia; personality factors and readership behavior of the audience of an Air Force internal publication; the personal versus the traditional approach to teaching reporting in college; and the way independent student newspapers and those maintained as a laboratory for journalism instruction fulfill the functions of the university campus press. (GW)