Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Please remember to print out your best writing exercises for inclusion into your portfolio. Your blog should be absolutely up to date by next week too. Also, be reminded that the Media Conference will be held in class next week. You must be in class to participate in the assessment.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
What is your story idea? How you might go about researching your story Who you plan to interview Issues you might have in developing your story
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Yep, there’s a holiday on Monday–but that doesn’t mean the pace slackens! You’ve got some really interesting, different feature stories to reda this week. Given that you are startign to learn what feature writing is about, I want you to take notice of the writign style and approach of the articles. One is based on [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Here is the real news story that I created your media conference story from…with certain facts taken out. It was reported in the Herald Sun. What do you think? Police have saved a man from a burning car that crashed after a rock was hauled through the windscreen, knocking out the driver. The two detectives from [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
You should all be busy writing up your short news story. When you have time to take a break, I would like you to consider a chapter of Barbara Ehrenreich’s book: “Nicket and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America.” I have purposely chosen this text because of the similarity of the theme with an article we [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
I have changed the submission date for the first assessment. This allows those students who wish to write their piece as a soft news story to have the advantage of the lecture and class exercise on soft news. The new assessment submission date is Friday April 16th. You can submit your stories to my pigeonhole [...]
