February 18, 2008 Archives
Topic:
Greensburg Field Trip
We have arranged this for Feb 15, and accordingly, class today is canceled.
The portfolio assignment is still due as usual.
The portfolio assignment is still due as usual.
Due Today:
Portfolio 1
In a single file, upload to Turnitin.com:
1) A Lab Report (a 400-word news article) (50%)
1) A Lab Report (a 400-word news article) (50%)
- Cover your contributions to the production of The Setonian (other than writing or photography) with special attention to your personal goals (from Ex 1)
- Include direct quotes from three sources, including editors and co-workers
- Write it in the third person, following all the principles of good journalism. (Thus, on first reference you are "Firstname Lastname, a freshman at Seton Hill University," and on subsequent references you are "Lastname.")
- The main audiences for the Summer Setonian:
- Incoming freshmen
- Parents of incoming freshmen
- Potential local advertisers (particularly businesses near the Performing Arts building)
- Pitch stories that will have a long shelf life.
- The issue is scheduled for July 11, and stories will need to last until late August.
- "Fourth of July Picnic Tips" will be pointless by then, but "Summer Fun" will last longer.
- Consider stories about recent grads, commuters, non-traditional-aged students, grad students...
- Consider localized versions of stories about "helicopter parents," "millennials," plagiarism, online privacy, digital rights and file-sharing, campus security, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, etc.
- Really, look in any issue of Time magazine or look in the Education section of a major newspaper.
- Plan to contact experts who are not at SHU. Rather than quoting from an academic study (as students should do), plan to seek an interview with the author. (You should, of course, also seek quotes from SHU sources, but your story will look better in your writing portfolio if you demonstrate a willingness to go off the hill for your sources.)
- Propose a group term project that meets an existing need.
- Interview your fellow Setonian staff members -- especially those who aren't taking this class, or who have never taken it.
- Find out what work needs to be done for The Setonian.
- Very briefly, sketch out where you feel you should be by the time you write your next portfolio.
- This can be informal, but keep it informative. What were the business you visited? What route did you take? How did people respond? What suggestions do you have about how to publicize issue #2?
