Science Journalism

•  The Heading    
•  Place and usefulness    
•  The need for Science Journalism    
•  The importance and usefulness of Science Journalism    

 History Of Science And Technology

•  Science for a Science Journalist    
•  History of Science and Technology for Science Journalist    
•  History of Science in outlines    
•  Civilization in Mesopotamia 
•  Scene in Egypt     
•  Greek Wisdom     
•  Activities at Alexandria    
•  The Roman Science and Technology    
•  India’s Wisdom    
•  Pre history to proto history    
•  The Harappans    
•  The Aryans
•  The Vedas     
•  The Arabs    
•  The Dark Age, The Middle Ages & The Renaissance    
•  Communication 
•  Meanings and definition    
•  Function of Communication    
•  Responses and Formats of Communication    
•  Elements of Communication    
•  Modes of Communication    
•  Land marks in Communication    
•  Popularization Of Science
•  Objectives    
•  Necessity    
•  The meaning of science    
•  The way to science popularization    
•  Institutions involved in propagating 
•  Popularization Of Science Among Children    
•  Duties And Code Of Conduct    
•  The central idea    
•  Limitations    
•  Background    
•  The modern scenario and the salient points    

 Laws and Privileges 

•  Rules and Laws related to Science Journalism    
•  Freedom of speech and expression    
•  Privileges of Houses of Legislature    
•  Registration of News Papers or Books    
•  Official secrets Act     
•  The Act to control quackery 
•  Act concerning Publications harmful to the Youth    
•  Act of related to the offer of competition and prizes    
•  Press Council Act     
•  The Indian Copy Right Act 
•  Working Journalists Act 
•  The Print Line    
•  Indian Patents Act 
•  The Nuclear Energy Regulation 
•  The Press Commissions    
•  Facilities available to the Journalists    
•  Organizations    

 Training, Employment And Remuneration

•  Main Points    
•  Training    
•  Employment    
•  Honors and Awards    

 Science Reporting 

•  Meaning and Object    
•  The Crux    
•  Aspects of Science Reporting    

 Science Writing 

•  The Art of Science Writing    
•  Element of readability    
•  Tradition, Training and Practice        

 News, Report And Reportage    

•   What is News    
•   What is Reporting    
•   What is Reportage    

 Translation And Vocabulary

•  Object of the Unit    
•  Need, Meaning and Principles of Translation    
•  Styles of Translation    
•  Kinds of Translation    
•  Importance of Translation in Modern Context    

 Translation Of Scientific Writings

•  Types of Translation    
•  Historical Background    
•  The main object of translation    
•  The Principles and practice    

 The News Room

•  Science Journalism for dissemination of knowledge    
•  Professional Skills    
•  The Copy writing 
•  Over to Printing department    

 Printing

•  Construction of pages    
•  Object of page make up    
•  Elements of layout    
•  Specialized layouts    
•  Arrangement of News    
•  Customary allocation of pages to different types of content    
•  Supplements    
•  Editorials    
•  Other features    
•  Column Writing

 Organisation, Management And Circulation

•  Organisational Structure and Organs
•  Administrative Division    
•  The Editorial Staff
•  The Advertisement Department 
•  Circulation Department 
•  Printing Department 

 Features And Write Ups

•  Characteristics of a Feature    
•  Types of Feature    
•  Scientific Write Ups    

 Science Fiction

•  Explanation         
•  Background    
•  Science Story Telling Abroad    

 What Is Science Fiction

•  Science Fiction of a Darker World    
•  History of Hindi Science Fiction    
•  Problems and Solutions    
•  The Process and Product    

 Craft And Technique of Science Fiction 

•  The Object
•  General Observations    
•  Constraints to Excellence    
•  The Content or The Matter    
•  The Concept or The Design    
•  Treatment or Presentation    
•  The Technique or Craft    

 Science Journalism And Science Plays

•  The Object    
•  The Drama     
•  The Science Drama    
•  The Radio Play    
•  The Tele Vision    
•  The Drama - A Critique    
•  The Drama - Classical Principles    
•  Drama - The Art and The Craft    
•  Elements of Drama - Dialogue, Plot and Character    
•  Future Directions and Potentials of Science Drama    

 Science Journalism And Science Poetry

•  The Object of The Unit    
•  The Science and Science Poetry    
•  The Duality Between Science and Poetry    
•  The Dichotomy between Science and Poetry    
•  The Poetry in the Service of Knowledge and Science    
•  The Science Poetry in Modern Times    
•  The Last Word

 Science Journalism And Science Quiz

•  The Object of the Unit    
•  What is Quiz?    
•  Types of Quiz    
•  Quiz in electronic media    
•  The Art of Quiz    
•  Quiz and a Science Journalist    

 Photo Journalism 

•  Preliminary explanation    
•  News Photography and News Reporting    
•  Scope of the Unit    
•  Originality and Creativity    
•  Ingenuity, inspiration and training    
•  Man and equipment    

 Science Journalism And Surveys

•  Guidance    
•  Place and use of Survey technique to the subject    
•  Historical perspective and the present day scenario    
•  Important issues    
•  Utility of technique of Survey    
•  Technological procedures and practices    
•  Observation for data collection     
•  Other methods and sources of data collection 
•  Interviews 
•  Questionnaire
•  Schedule

 Survey Generation Of Data

•  Tools and methods
•  Sources and methods of primary knowledge    
•  Identification of sources of information    
•  Sampling

 Sampling Procedures

•  Random Sampling 
•  Stratified Sampling    

 Extraction of knowledge

•  Merits and uses of the method of Observation    
•  Methods    

 Questionnaire

•  Schedule    
•  The use of Schedule    
•  Presentation    
•  Object of the use of tabulated representation    
•  Advantages of the method of tabulation    
•  Limitations of the method of Tabular representation 
•  Qualities of a good Table

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