Language exams and entrance requirements: A 20-year update

Journalism and Mass Communication Educator

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 40-44

  Oukrop, Carol ^a   Brown, Lee ^b   Parsons, Paul ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85053303088     PISSN: 10776958     EISSN: 21614326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769589805300204     Document Type: Note

References (8)

1. Carol Oukrop and Lee Brown, “A Brief Report on What J Schools Are Doing about Journalism Language Skills,” presented at the AEJ convention in Madison, Wisconsin, August 1977.
2. Dean Rea, “J-Schools Stress Grammar, Spelling Before Teaching News Gathering,” Journalism Educator 28:17 (October 1973).
3. Thomas A. Bowers and Richard R. Cole, “North Carolina Test in Grammar-Spelling Wins Student Favor,” Journalism Educator 29:29 (April 1973).
4. Frank Thayer, “Remedial Course for Writing Skills Proven Effective,” Journalism Educator 43:72 (Summer 1988).
5. Carol Oukrop and Thomas A. Brown, pp. 2-3.
6. Thomas A. Bowers, “Commercial Language Tests: Their Pluses and Minuses,” Journalism Educator 34:10 (April 1981).
7. Virgil B. Moberg, “Rhetorical and Grammatical Tests to Admit Students as Majors” (a commentary), Journalism Educator 46:3 (Autumn 1991), p. 61.
8. Lee B. Becker, Table 3 enrollment growth rate history in “Enrollment Increase in 1989, but Graduation Rates Drop,” Journalism Educator 45:3 (Autumn 1990), p. 8.