News Reporting and Writing Workshop JMSC0002B

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Introduction

• News Reporting and Writing Workshop (JMSC0002B)
• January 21, 2002

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NewsWriting

• A genre of Non-fiction writing
• Not a chronicle, not an essay, not a business
  letter.
• Attitude A way of looking at things as
  potential material for a news story.

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You learn

• To find something to write
• To write it clearly
• To write it effectively.

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You can write

• Writing is talking to someone else on paper. If
  you can think clearly, you can put what you think
  and what you know into writing.
• William Zinsser

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Confidence

• You must believe in yourself.
• You can write only as well as you allow yourself
  to write.

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Revision

• You are expected to write many drafts.
• You learn by re-writing your own stories.