Journalism 101/201 (Wednesday, April 12 - 5th period)

[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

"Hello, boys and girls," Rita said. "Today, we look at structure. Please take a look at the paper, and read through the articles. There are a few instances of not only poor grammar, but bad journalistic structure. Given that we're on a word count when we write for a newspaper, we need to conserve space and say things with the utmost clarity and fewest words. So take a look at the paper. Is this accomplished?"

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Re: Read the paper and so on!

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter flipped through the papers and cringed at his articles. "It's possible that I have too much of a casual tone with my StuCo Roundup columns. And sometimes I'm kind of wordy. And throw in some bulletpoints that don't actually have to be in there."

"There's room for improvement on my part."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

Rita sighed. "Good heavens, why don't you and Ms. Gilmore just go start a club. She did the same thing in my earlier class." She glanced at him. "Which isn't to say I don't agree with you. Just that I give you an opportunity to criticize others, and you choose to egotistically fixate on your own work."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Well there was a thought. Maybe if DUCKLINGS ever met again, it could focus on his and Rory's feelings of journalistic inadequacy...

"It is still a learning experience, though, ma'am. If we can see our faults now, hopefully we can improve upon them. Next week maybe I'll have some actual content and be a bit more concise."