Excerpt from Journalism for High Schools: A Guide-Book for Students in Conducting, the School Paper, and in Preparing Themselves Selves for Newspaper Work as a Profession With more than forty state institutions offering courses in journalism as an elective study, it seems logical to assume that sufficient interest has been manifested to warrant the writing of a book giving definite preparation for such work in the high school years. Persons familiar with such questions have long known that few students enrolling in the freshman year in college have any clear idea of just what they intend to do. Too frequently journalism is chosen to fill out the assignments in college without any intelligent conception of its requirements, and just as often, perhaps, the student is disappointed after weeks or months have been wasted in attempting work for which he is unsuited. It is with the hope of eliminating this doubt and wasted time that I have arranged the program of study set down in this little book. Why should not the high school student know before going to college whether he cares to undertake journalism as part of his course? With hundreds of high schools printing papers of one sort or another, usually for practice in writing, why should not the methods and the ethics of this old profession be made plain in the formative years, when association and proper direction have the strongest influence in deciding the career to be chosen? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.