http://www.freelanceunbound.com/2009/10/21/advice-for-journalism-students-write/ Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:23:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.freelanceunbound.com/2009/10/21/advice-for-journalism-students-write/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Freelance Unbound Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:05:59 +0000 http://www.freelanceunbound.com/?p=2424#comment-336 Thanks Greg. I have found that acting as editor and dishing out assignments is quite effective at getting them to write. The problem is – as with all university based courses – that there is simply not enough teaching time. Most of the time students are left to their own devices and are not yet sufficiently skilled to be their own commissioning editor. (Not without a lot of angst, anyway...) Thanks Greg. I have found that acting as editor and dishing out assignments is quite effective at getting them to write. The problem is – as with all university based courses – that there is simply not enough teaching time. Most of the time students are left to their own devices and are not yet sufficiently skilled to be their own commissioning editor. (Not without a lot of angst, anyway…)

]]> http://www.freelanceunbound.com/2009/10/21/advice-for-journalism-students-write/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Greg Watts Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:22:30 +0000 http://www.freelanceunbound.com/?p=2424#comment-335 Could you maybe give them a focus for a news story, say something in their local community? This might help. On the other hand, you might have already done this. Or what about, to get them into the rhythm of writing news, asking them to take a news story from a web site and write it word for word, or make some minor changes. This might be a useful warm-up exercise. Just a couple of ideas. Good luck. Could you maybe give them a focus for a news story, say something in their local community? This might help. On the other hand, you might have already done this. Or what about, to get them into the rhythm of writing news, asking them to
take a news story from a web site and write it word for word, or make some minor changes. This might be a useful warm-up exercise. Just a couple of ideas. Good luck.

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