Section A of the Miscellaneous Studies section of the proceedings contains the following 17 papers: "Readability Reconsidered: A Study of Reader Reactions to Differences in Fog Indexes" (Katherine C. McAdams); "Country and Nostalgia: Space and Time in Magazine Journalism" (Allen W. Palmer); "Images and Descriptions: A Semiotic Analysis of Specialty Fashion Catalogs for Non-Standard Women" (Anna Banks and Linda Coulter); "The Production of Meaning in Wedding Photography" (Charles Lewis); "The Sound of Fact" (Patricia Westfall); "Newspapers and Citizenship: Young Adults' Subjective Experience of the Newspaper Form" (Kevin G. Barnhurst and Ellen Wartella); "Mennonite Culture and Communication: How Media Use Shapes Identity" (Sharon Hartin Iorio); "Daily Newspaper Coverage of the Gay and Lesbian Community: Perceptual Differences of Senior Editors and their Gay and Lesbian Staffers" (Joseph Bernt and Marilyn Greenwald); "Predictors of Job Burnout in Reporters and Copy Editors" (Betsy B. Cook and Steven R. Banks); "Predictors of Job Satisfaction among Black Journalists" (Sharon Bramlett-Solomon); "The Experiences of Female Journalism Graduates in the Canadian Labour Market: A Longitudinal Assessment" (Fiona A. E. McQuarrie); "Differences at Work and at Home: Factors in Career Advancement by Male and Female News Directors" (Kimberly K. Burks and Vernon A. Stone); "Teaching Freedom of Speech in the Large Lecture Classroom" (Joel Geske); "Overcoming the Drawbacks of the Large Lecture Classroom" (Joel Geske); "Media Frames: Approaches to Conceptualization and Measurement" (James W. Tankard, Jr. and others); "The Impact of Prior Beliefs and Disclosure of Methods on Perceptions of Poll Data Quality and Methodological Discounting" (Daniel M. Merkle); and "World without Rebellion: Life of the Working-Class Women in Popular Culture" (Eung-Sook Kim). (SR)