The class sessions will be devoted to discussions and presentations, in-class writing assignments and exercises, and several guest speakers. Also, regular class meetings will be canceled from time to time, and individual conferences will be held instead. Required Reading Your main outside reading should be newspapers. There is no way that you can learn to write for newspapers unless you read newspapers. The Washington Post Weekly Edition and the Bloomington Herald-Times .
Copies are available in local bookstores.
I will also place a copy on reserve in the journalism library. I will give you a copy of this. I also want you to have at hand the Associated Press Stylebook . The most recent edition is 2000, but an earlier edition is okay, too. This book is also available in the bookstores.