A number of faulty assumptions about women cloud the real issues facing families who need child care in the 1980s. Until we can isolate the child care issues and discard the emotional underpinnings of women's status, child care cannot become a recognized profession. The first section of this paper focuses on assumptions about women's roles.…

To assess the impact of rhetorical research within the field of speech communication as it contributes to the arts and humanities, a study analyzed major articles that appeared in the "Quarterly Journal of Speech" from 1970-1980. Citation measurement was made possible through the use of the "Arts and Humanities Index," a…

Burns and Haga's critique of the "shopping list" characterization of professions (1977) is examined, and an alternative analysis is proposed and applied to management accounting. According to Burns and Haga, a field is regarded as a profession if it serves needs recognizable within the society as crucial and is imbued with substantial…

The examination of the conventionality of discourse at speech communication conventions reveals the ideological commitments of these conventions. The symposium, conference, and congress differ from the convention in that at such meetings the participants are interested in generating concrete experience, while at conventions, participants are…

During 1976-77, the Berkeley Division of the Librarians Association of the University of California sponsored four seminars on career development for academic librarians. The speakers and their topics were: Archie Kleingartner (Vice President for Academic and Staff Personnel Relations, University of California), "The professional in the…

The Experimenter Prestige Effect (EPE) concerns the phenomenon where research products will be more readily and less critically accepted if produced by scholars and/or institutions of great eminence, even though the objective quality of ideas, methodology, and findings are equal. This study tested the hypothesis that students give higher ratings…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the continuing education activities in which teachers engaged and to determine where possible: what factors influenced their participation in courses; the kinds of help teachers received from selected continuing education activities; the kinds of help they received from colleagues; and the changes…

This study investigated the written and oral discourse of a subject with an established reputation as an author, editor, lecturer, and television host, to determine whether his written discourse was more complex syntactically than his spoken discourse. The oral language sample was taken from a taped television program in which the speaker…

This report contains the formal documents leading to the inclusion on the provisional agenda of UNESCO's 1972 General Conference of a discussion considering the desirability of adopting an instrument for the protection of translators. Included in the document is the "Preliminary Study of the Technical and Legal Aspects of Copyright Protection for…

This collection of 15 biographies was prepared to illustrate, for classroom purposes, some of the well-known contemporary Indian, Eskimo, and Metis people in Canada today. (MJB)

The author states that educators must instill a sense of professional pride and identification in their bookkeeping students. He gives something of the history of bookkeeping, its importance in the financial world, the different duties of bookkeepers and accountants, and the equal importance of both. (MF)

A general rationale for the academic library is called for so that all the issues, from student use of the book collection to the status and promotion of the professional staff, may fall into a logical perspective. A 60-item bibliography is provided. (LBH)

Colleges should guard against a solely local focus in public relations, encouraging individuals within the college to participate in state and national professional affairs. Recognition will also come if the college is an active member of the state system and the national higher education enterprise. (Author/RT)

Forty-six physicians practicing in nonurban areas of California were interviewed and a majority reported rarely or never feeling professionaly isolated. Measures describing the current community and professional activities were not found to predict feeling of professional isolation, but mean rating by admissions interviewers were. (Author/LBH)