These qualities should be present in any well-written piece of nonfiction. Current developments include but are not limited to environmental issues, politics, science, technology, society, and economics. These topics are broad and often overlap with one another. It is important as a writer to identify what is currently happening in each of these areas to best convey the flow of events that can help readers understand more about this topic. Current events are those that are happening now. Current developments are both current events and other things that have happened recently too. For example, "current events" could be an earthquake in Japan while "current developments" would be something like "the earthquake has caused a nuclear emergency at one of Japan's power plants." Being current is only part of what makes for good current events/developments writing. They also need to be relevant and interesting to read about. Saying that there have been many earthquakes in Japan lately wouldn't make for a very compelling story even if they were all in different places so far. Current events/developments writing classes can be used by journalists to learn how to write better articles about their subjects.