ELABORATION IN TEXT AS BREADTH AND DEPTH

This study compares two community newspapers, through content analysis , for indices of elaboration identified through various theoretical so urces. The object of the study is to trace the relationship of economi c development and technological growth to use of elaborative elements in text describing science and technology. One community was ascertain ed by census and other data to be developing; the other community was determined to be stagnant; indices for depth and breadth in coverage, use of visualization in figures of speech, and other indices were comp ared. Copy from the developing area showed strong correlations of all indices for breadth and depth; coverage from the other area, while con taining elements of visualization, showed fewer correlations.