Class Topics, Readings and Due Dates

• 08/27/07
  
  • Topic: Course Overview
    
  • Topic: Key Concepts
    
• 08/29/07
  
  • Due: Ex 1: Local News: TV/Newspaper Comparison
    
• 08/31/07
  
  • Due: WB 1: English Essays vs. Journalism
    
  • Text: English Essay vs. News Story
    
  • Text: Geist (J-Web)
    
• 09/05/07
  
  • Due: Ex 2: Peer Profile
    
  • Text: Sago (J-Web)
    
  • Text: AP Guide to News Writing
    
• 09/10/07
  
  • Due: WB 2: The Invisible Observer
    
  • Due: Ex 3: Speaker/Event Story
    
  • Text: Mao (J-Web)
    
• 09/12/07
  
  • Text: AP Guide to News Writing (Ch1 & Ch2)
    
  • Text: Backup Advice (J-Web)
    
• 09/14/07
  
  • Topic: Lab: Blogging (Was Interview Skills)
    
  • Due: WB 3: Nat Gruf Notes (was City Council Sim)
    
• 09/17/07
  
  • Topic: Reporter's Craft
    
  • Due: WB 4: Review and Active/Passive Verbs
    
  • Topic: Accident and Crime Stories
    
• 09/19/07
  
  • Topic: Accident and Crime Stories 2
    
  • Text: Readings (Gomez and Your Choice)
    
• 09/21/07
  
  • Topic: Accident and Crime Stories 3
    
  • Due: Vocabulary Quiz
    
  • Text: AP Guide to News Writing (Chs 3-5)
    
• 09/24/07
  
  • Topic: Accident and Crime Stories 4
    
  • Text: Crime stories
    
  • Text: Covering Crime and Its Victims
    
• 09/26/07
  
  • Topic: Prep for Courtroom Lab
    
  • Text: AP Guide to News Writing (TBA)
    
• 09/28/07
  
  • Topic: Lab: Courtroom Simulation
    
• 10/01/07
  
  • Topic: Review WB 6
    
• 10/03/07
  
  • Due: Grammar Quiz
    
  • Due: Ex 4: Crime/Courts Story
    
• 10/08/07
  
  • Due: Article 1: Homecoming Coverage (Draft)
    
• 10/10/07
  
  • Due: AP Style Quiz (Will be rescheduled after the break)
    
  • Due: WB 7: Peer Edit Article 1
    
• 10/12/07
  
  • Due: Article 1 (Revision)
    
• 10/17/07
  
  • Topic: Guest Lecture
    
  • Due: Reflective Portfolio 1
    
• 10/19/07
  
  • Text: IANS -- Intro and Ch1
    
• 10/22/07
  
  • Text: IANS -- Ch 2-4
    
  • Due: WB 8: Basic Statistics; Copyediting
    
• 10/24/07
  
  • Due: WB 5: Research; Mock Press Conference; Story Pitch
    
• 10/26/07
  
  • Text: IANS -- Ch 5 and 6
    
• 10/29/07
  
  • Text: IANS -- Ch 7 and 8
    
• 11/02/07
  
  • Text: IANS -- Ch 9 and 10
    
  • Due: WB 9: Science and Hype
    
  • Due: Reflective Portfolio 2
    
  • Topic: Lab: Health/Sci Reporting
    
• 11/05/07
  
  • Topic: Review WB 10
    
  • Topic: Workshop
    
  • Due: Cancelled: WB 10: Health/Sci Follow-up
    
• 11/07/07
  
  • Due: Ex 5: Courtroom/Crime Reporting Refresher
    
  • Text: America's Best Newspaper Writing (ABNW) p, 87-97
    
• 11/09/07
  
  • Due: Article 2 Brainstorming
    
• 11/12/07
  
  • Due: Article 2 Pitches (2)
    
• 11/14/07
  
  • Text: Best Practices
    
• 11/19/07
  
  • Due: WB 11: Article 2 Progress
    
  • Text: Best Practices (Finish)
    
  • Due: Ex 6: Safe Students / Crime Story
    
• 11/26/07
  
  • Text: Hull, "Metal to Bone"
    
  • Text: Fuson, "Ah, What a Day"
    
• 11/28/07
  
  • Due: WB 12: TBA
    
  • Text: ABNW, Chapter 10
    
• 12/03/07
  
  • Due: Final Exam
    
  • Due: Paper 2 Draft
    
• 12/05/07
  
  • Text: ABNW, Chapter 11
    
  • Due: WB 12: Peer Editing
    
• 12/07/07
  
  • Due: Reflective Portfolio 3
    
  • Due: Paper 2 Final Draft
    
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