Week 2 Notes « Writing and Presentation For Digital Media

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Week 2 Notes

Posted by kegill on April 3, 2007

Tonight’s Agenda
- Readability & Meaning
  - Readability v Legibility
  - Tools, Gunning
  - What kind of story is this? (a new genre?)
- Structure & Meaning
In Class Assignment 1: Review types of stories/content of interest (below)
- Pick three stories (try more than one genre) & test readability (use Word if you don’t want to do that math by hand!)
- Pick a news story & test readability
- Post to blog (categorize as “assignment”)
  - Barrie
  - Belle
  - Chloe
  - Kaichen
  - Kathy
  - Kevin
  - Kristina
  - Luke
  - Magnus
  - Meg
  - Stephanie
  - Tony
  - Vaun
In Class Assignment 2: In small groups, discuss what makes a good story. Develop a set of characteristics. (You report out, I’ll capture.)
- Strong lead/hook
- Interesting
- Relevant
- Clear focus
- Consistency
- Readable
- Provides context (appropriate)
- Well organized
- Logical sequence
- Teach me something
- Spelling & grammar
- Conclusion
Reading: Please blog by 6pm on Monday (categorize as “reading”)
Assignment 1: Indicate if you would rather work on a group story about “Seattle” or about “Media Ownership” and provide details about the types of stories you envision as the group project. Please post by 6 pm on Friday. Then review all other 10 classmate blog posts and comment by noon on Tuesday. (categorize the blog post as “assignment”)
Assignment 2: Individual story for the quarter. From the syllabus:

1Students first develop a concept proposal. This proposal should be posted on the student blog (tagged “proposal”) ; it is due Week 3. Class members will provide feedback using the commenting feature of the blog software.

Summary – Assignment 1:
Identify three types of stories (content) that interest you as a content creator. Provide the story/content name, URL, abstract, and a statement of what sparks your interest in this genre. Categorize this post “assignment.”

No post:

Belle
Luke
Magnus
Vaun

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2 Responses to “Week 2 Notes”

magnusuw said

April 9, 2007 at 9:51 pm
hmm add me to this list here now?
kegill said

April 10, 2007 at 11:29 am
nope. this is the record of on-time submittals. and we aren’t going to talk about this, specifically, tonight.