Semester Overview of due_dates Category

Center spread articles & layout

Leadership Portfolio 2 (Documentation of your leadership goals and accomplishments. A 3-page narrative, with supporting documents such as emails, copy-editing, etc. Details TBA.)

Center spread articles. (Complete drafts of all the articles for your final project.)

Setonian Online Instructions (usability report and screencast)

Overview:
1) Lab Report (freshmen) OR Workshop Report (editors)
2) Action Item (all students)

Upload both, in a single file, in the Portfolio 3 slot in Turnitin.com.

Details

1a) Lab Report (freshmen... inverted pyramid news feature; 400 words)

Reminder... here is the rubric for your lab report.

If you have not already posted your reflection and photos from the field trip (or the make-up assignment), please let me know when you plan to do so.

Content (30)	Excellent 6	Good 5	Acceptable 4	Attempted 3	Unacceptable 1
Length	Within 2%	Within 5%	Within 10%	Within 25%	Not w/i 25%
Headline	Attracts w/ well-chosen words	Informs w/ effective words	Uses at least 1 effective, non-passive verb	Uses at least 1 relevant verb	Omits a relevant verb
Lead	Grabs & informs w/ style & brevity	Informs w/o wasted words	Important details in brief, useful order	Some attempt at a news feature lead	No clear lead; may echo essay or TV
Paragraphs	1 idea or speaker each; 2-3 short sentences	Mostly 1 idea each; short sentences	Good focus, w/ few or no length issues	Organized but essay-style; need trimming	Focus and length need additional work.
Sources (Interviews)	4+ good sources	3 good sources	2 good sources	1 source	0 sources
AP Style (10)	Excellent 10	Good 8	Acceptable 7	Attempted 6	Unacceptable 4
Review: CopyEditing.doc	Perfect	Few, trivial lapses	Mostly correct	Some attempt at AP Style	Significant AP Style lapses

1b) Workshop Report (informal but detailed, practical reflection, 150 words)

• Aja, reflect on your Setonian Online workshops. (What did you learn from the second try? How might a future EL200 editor build on your experiences?)
• Maddie: due to the timing, your full reflection should wait until after you have completed the Setonian layout workshops. (What follow-up do we need? How might a future EL200 editor build on your experiences?) If you could have that in by next Monday, that will be great.
  

2) Action Item proposal
Propose an "action item."  A concrete, specific, practical thing that needs to be done for the long-term good of The Setonian.
(It might be a checklist for a procedure you find challenging, a new poster to hang on the wall in the publications office, an interview with someone who has a skill that you want to develop.)

(You will submit this "action item" as part of Portfolio 4. It should be something concrete that you can turn in and add to your own professional portfolio, rather than something like cleaning up the office.)

Setonian Online Instructions (screen caps and instructions, on an assigned topic. See me.)

Center spread pitches. (Convince an imaginary editor that you can produce 3-4 related stories, with images, filling up 2 newspaper pages, by your 07 Dec deadline. You'll need to talk to your sources in advance, so you know there's really a story.)

1) Freshmen Only: Your 400-word Lab Report, describing your contributions to the production of The Setonian (remember to interview your peers and editors as you are doing the work, so that you don't need to "ask for quotes" at the last minute). The rubric for this lab report will be the same one as last time.

1) Editors Only: Polished introduction to the completed, published training screencasts (with a link).

2) Everyone: What is the most important lesson you have learned about journalism so far in EL200? In what ways have you been able to put that lesson into practice? (At least 50 words.)

3) Everyone: A reflection on what you would like a future section of EL200 to cover. (If you could change something about EL200, what would you change? What would you definitely keep?) (At least 50 words.)

1. Production Lab Report (in the form of a news story) (400 words; 50%)
   
2. Reflective Analysis of DC Trip (What steps did you take to ensure that this trip helps you to meet your own educational goals? Refer to what you wrote in Ex 1, Part A) (300 words; 30%)
3. Captioned DC Photos (3 photos and captions, following AP Style; support your claims from section 2) (2 sentences per caption; 20%)
   

Upload all parts, in a single file, to the proper slot in Turnitin.com.

If you did not attend the DC trip, please write (as specifically as possible) your plans for making up parts #2 and #3 of this assignment, paying particular notice to the goals you set for yourself in Ex 1, Part A.