Week 1 – Getting to know each other

I enjoyed meeting everyone this week and learning about your educational and professional goals, writing experience and strengths/weaknesses. I loved the student introductions through headlines and leads about each other. (We have a few more to complete on Tuesday.)

We have a wide range of interests in this class, but the one thing you all have in common is a desire to improve your writing skills and learn about feature writing. As with most skills, improvement will come with practice…and we will do a lot of practicing in this class!

Next week, we will dive right into the world of features: how they differ from news stories, what the main categories of features include and how to generate story ideas.

Be sure to get your textbook and begin reading the assigned pages. Also, review the assignment workbook to get an overview of future assignments.  

If you have not taken Jour 21a (or need a refresher), please read Chapter 3 on newswriting basics.