Credits Spring Semester Focus on advanced writing, rewriting, and editing news articles. This course traces the development of the news media, print, and broadcast, from their beginning stages in the 1830s to the present. Primary attention is given to the economic, cultural, political, and social dimensions of the development processes. This course starts with the premise that good writing is a craft that can be learned, but only by those who bring discipline and motivation to the task. The essay is our genre, as it might appear in the pages of a magazine or newspaper.
Subject matter is wide open.
Associated topics include working with editors, listening to readers, mastering word processing technologies, looking for markets, building self-confidence, avoiding writer's block, coping with rejection. Access to word processor required. The theory and practice of journalism in the United States within the parameters of both legal and ethical constraints. Fall Semester Advanced news writing and research in the context of the student newspaper under the individual supervision of the instructor in a laboratory setting. Spring Semester Advanced editing, layout and the use of illustrations, graphics, and color.