Syllabus | EN 2213: Advanced Journalism I
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October 11, 2018
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The Journalistic Writing (10/5 hrs)
- Important News Determinants
- Timeliness of News
- Proximity of News
- The Magnitude of News
- The significance of the news
- The news policy of the news paper
- The Objectivity Rule
- The Inverted Pyramid Story Form
- The completeness of a News story
- Writing short paragraphs
- Adherence to a Style
The quality of Readability
News Papers (10/5 hrs)
Initiators of Journalism
- The Development of Broadcasting
- Declining Readership
- Alternative Sources of information
- Concentration of Ownership
- Organizational Structure: The business Style
- Organizational Structure: The Editorial side
- The News Editor
- Managing Editor
- Section Editors
- Supporting Sections
- The Editor and Editorial Policy
- The Black Press: An alternative voice in American Journalism
- The Editorial Page
- News papers Today
- Small News Paper Big-Time Journalism
- Major players in the News Paper Industry
- New York Times
- Washington Post
- USA Today
- Wall Street Journals
- Chicago Tribune
- The future of News papers
Reporters and Reporting (10/5 hrs)
Reporters
- What reporters do?
- Personal characteristics
- Profile of the American Journalist
- Becoming a professional
- Becoming a reporter
- The chief reporter and other Correspondents
- Five Ws and One H
- Types of sources
- Stored Sources
- Personal Sources
- Observation
- Interviewing
- Ten tips for covering a Beat
- A dozen interviewing tips
- A note on accuracy
Editors , Editing & Headline Writing (10/5 hrs)
Editors
- Who is the editor?
- The most important job
- Traits of an editor
- The editor writer relationship
- What the editor must do?
- Getting to be an editor
- Accuracy
- Checking facts
- Names and titles
- Numbers
- Places
- The story’s inner logic
- Brevity
- Clarity
- Editing Procedure
- The Lead
- Story Structure
- Completeness
- Style
- Names and titles
- Quotations and Attributions
- Triteness and clichés
- Wordiness
- Repetition and Redundancy Accuracy
- Offensive Language
- Accuracy
- Logic
- Specificity
- Word Precision
- Double meanings
- Guidelines
- Procedure
- Headlines on the Web
Writing News, Features and Styles (10/5 hrs)
- Basic writing characteristics
- Writing values and advice
- Attribution
- Other writing Convention
- Short sentences
- Third person
- An attitude for Accuracy
- The inverted Pyramid
- The Lead paragraph
- Inverted Pyramid checklist
- Developing the story
- Feature styles
- Anecdotal Features
- Suspended Interest Features
- Questions and answer
- Read
- Analyse
- Emulate
- Trademarks
- Journalistic Convention
- Inverted pyramid
- Types of stories
- Balance and Fairness
- The impersonal Reporter
- Sources
- Attribution and questions
- Language sensitivity
- Basic AP Style Rule
- Titles
- Descriptions
- Stereotypes
- Illness and Disability
Writing Articles and news stories (10/5 hrs)
Getting information through different sources , note making, expanding notes to make an
an interesting piece of writing . ( Group work)
Writing Articles: Reviewing, editing and proof reading.(Assignment)
Peer Editing: Groups exchange their writings and edit and give feedback , re-drafting and proof reading.
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