Today was our last class meeting. We did some finishing touches on our alternative story forms, posted them to our websites, and did some other housekeeping things. We also took a class picture (in which I'm sure we all looked incredibly intelligent).
I learned a lot from journalism workshop. Prior to this class, I had considered my writing to be strong, but this class taught me more than I would have imagined. One of the most important things I learned was how to write concisely; pieces sound much stronger without all of the fluff words. I also found it interesting to learn about the different types of stories in journalism (i.e. ASF, news peg, inverted pyramid, etc.) because when I read the newspaper prior to this class I had never thought about how the different articles I was reading were written in different forms. It's fun to read the newspaper now and know more about what went into the writing process.
I think this class will help me out a lot next year as I'm going to work for the Cosmos, which should be fun, and it'll help me in my other writing intensive classes as well.
I hope everyone has a great summer!
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oh wow! congrats on the cosmos Beth! you might be editing some of my publishable pieces! LOL.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I enjoy reading the newspaper more and I don't skip to the crossword section right away anymore. I learned the value of news, and I hope print news and media stay with us for a while. It will be interesting to see how things change in the years to come with newspapers getting smaller and things like that.