September 18, 2009 Archives

Topic:

TBA

Overview: AP Style and dates.

Highly Recommended: AP Style Practice Quizzes.

Clicker Practice.

Discussion of story pitches.
Due Today:

Portfolio 1

On your SHU blog, write a brief reflective essay, or a list with evaluative notes, that presents your online work, organized into catgories.

If you have been keeping up with your blogging, this assignment will simply involve collecting and reflecting.  If there are gaps in your blogging, this is your chance to catch up.

What is your portfolio?

It begins with a richly-linked blog entry that introduces your reader to blog entries that you have created, and discussions from your peers' blogs in which you have participated, as part of a reflective statement on your progress so far.

Examples of portfolios from previous classes have included a no-nonsense list and a more personal essay. Either format is fine, but however you present your work, it's important to me that you specify where each of your posts falls amongst the categories listed below. The same post can count for more than one category, but if you keep re-using the same handful of posts that's probably a sign you can do a little better next time.


Assigned Text:

Cappon, Ch 3

Who, what, when, where, why, and how: befriend these questions. But don't answer them, in that order, in every lead.
Assigned Text:

Cappon, Ch 4

Conserve words. You'll need to use complex sentences to untangle the petty squabbles of a dysfunctional city council, or to convey the majesty of an inaugural parade. Pack more into a smaller space. (Twitter is great practice.)
Assigned Text:

Story Pitches

http://www.freep.com/legacy/jobspage/toolkit/pitch.htm (and more TBA)

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