Designed for students who produce newspapers and newsmagazines in junior high, middle, and elementary schools, this booklet is both a scorebook and a fundamentals text. The scorebook provides realistic criteria for judging publication excellence at these educational levels. All the basics for good publications are included in the text of the fundamentals sections. Topics covered include writing features, editorial coverage, sports coverage, photography, writing the news story, opinion pages, headlines, cutlines (captions) for photographs, page makeup, typography, illustrations, advertising, special considerations, suggestions for duplicated publications, and tips on using graphics in mimeographed papers. Also provided are a list of newspaper terms and a guide to references on the discussed topics. (RL)