Ah - there was the classic case that made it onto ABC TV about The USQ Journalism Dept. Made it onto the ABC Media Watch Show - you should be able to sesarch for it in their archives - http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/100602_s7.htm.

"Lern Jurnilisim at USQ :: 10/6/2002"

It was also mentioned in the Foolestroupe Yahoo list.

In that case apparently the input was from Word documents converted into HTML nad the result had partial fragments of sentences repeated and scattered everywhere, making hysterical nonsense out of their claims of producing the best Journalism Students.

Some Classic Quotes:

"They will be given considerable practice in quotations" - isn't that er ... plager.. plagism, er ... pinching someone else's ideas without credit... ya'no....

"Students will be regularly imposed on print practitioners."

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From the Yahoo List foolestroupe

"Students will be students"

Quotation from the Public Official USQ Handbook Webpage for JRN1000 as reported in the (Australian) ABC Media Watch Program in June 2002.
File http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foolestroupe/files/Member%20Files/USQ-100602_s7f1.jpg

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Units 1.00 (Journalism)Band 1

This course is designed to introduce students to the Australian news media and their practices. Emphasis will be placed on the need for This unit is designed to introduce students to the Australian news students to think objectively about the main news events of the day, media and their practices. Emphasis will be placed on the need for and the ways the print media have reported them. Students will be students to think objectively about the main news events of the day, encouraged to achieve accuracy and objectivity within the constraints and the ways the print media have reported them. Students will be regularly imposed on print practitioners. Students will be introduced encouraged to achieve accuracy and objectivity within the constraints to news values, journalism research, interview skills, and the elements regularly imposed on print practitioners. Students will introduced that make up news stories. They will be given considerable
practice in to news values, journalism research, interview skills, and the elements writing introductory paragraphs and handling direct and indirect that make up news stories. They will be given considerable practice in quotations. To pass this course students must complete and hand in all writing introductory paragraphs and handling direct and indirect terms of assessment. The final grade will be calculated on the total quotations, mark only. Grades will be awarded at the percentiles of HD = 90 or more: A = 80-89; B = 65-79; C = 50-64; F = less than 50.

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