Creative Writing focuses on the four-step Process Writing model and the reading of professional writings to motivate students to create original essays, poems and short stories. The writing assignments include narration, definition, process analysis, cause and effect and comparison/contrast. Students learn self-editing skills by following the instructor’s detailed suggestions for the revision and refinement of their work.
Before enrolling in this course, you should be familiar with basic touch-typing fundamentals and have some experience working in a windows environment with a mouse. Obviously, you must have a good word processor like Microsoft Word.
One semester
Introduction to Journalism, McDougal Littell. ISBN #9780618003778
Course Introduction and What is Journalism?
Finding Journalism Sites on the Web
The Challenge of Journalism
Laws, Ethics and Policy
Types of News and Story Ideas
Sources for News