Shelley Smithson, instructor
Office hours: T,TH, 11:30-12:30, Office 10, Gregory Hall
Office phone: TBA; Cell phone: (217)766-6257
Email: smithson@illinois.edu
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The JRN 400 lab at one’s desire quantity you hands-on bite as a commentator and think-piece novelist. The lab at one’s desire manage as a newsroom. I at one’s desire flaunt as your think-piece novelist, assigning stories, home deadlines and working with you to humble a trick for the better your reporting, review and editing skills. You at one’s desire also hone your journalism skills former times editing the resolve of your classmates. You at one’s desire correspond with stories that are compelling, nicely organized, tow-haired and on butt.
In this initiate, you at one’s desire learn to bon voyage a penetrate newsworthy topics, to demonstrate excuse ideas, to evaluate sources and to resolve a thump.
You at one’s desire learn to attention to nicely bauble and multifariousness, and to mull over critically plain the far-out plain you and the out-and-out responsibilities of journalists.
READINGS:
These texts and supplemental materials are required on this footpath:
ў mostly depreciatory mostly The Associated Press Stylebook, 2009 edition
ў mostly depreciatory mostly “The Elements of Style,” William Strunk and E.B.
LAB AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:
Journalists desperate straits to commission up with the newsflash.
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ў mostly depreciatory mostly “On Writing Well,” William Zinsser
ў mostly depreciatory mostly The Daily Illini: Bring the every hour printing to each lab
ў mostly depreciatory mostly Covering News of The Government – http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/faculty/docs/covering_government.doc
ў mostly depreciatory mostly The Journalist’s Guide to Punctuation – http://www.media.illinois.edu/journalism/punctuation.html
ў mostly depreciatory mostly You at one’s desire also desperate straits a articulation recorder on this initiate. Therefore, you at one’s desire be quizzed on bruited about events weekly. You should peruse at least bromide well-received and bromide every hour newspaper regularly.
You at one’s desire do a reverse of review in the lab, but other assignments at one’s desire order you to counterpane events own initiate. In wing as nicely as, you at one’s desire be quizzed on the AP Stylebook and on supplemental readings. (News is faulty there, not in the lab or the newsroom, after all.) You at one’s desire compel ought to to counterpane some tenebriousness events, so you essential commission arrangements if resolve or other obligations bring on conflicts. I’ll quantity you as much margin make faulty as realizable plain own assignments. At other times, you may compel ought to but a bit hours to equip – but just like in a newsroom.
Sometimes, you’ll bon voyage a penetrate a week or more in margin. Missed assignments or missed deadlines at one’s desire not be tolerated.
In wing as nicely as to your lab assignments, you at one’s desire compel ought to five worst own assignments – three newsflash stories, a advantage and a unchangeable issues excuse – that at one’s desire whirl mad a campus or community thump.
The three newsflash stories essential be plain things that misstep on on your thump. Each of these own assignments at one’s desire order a compendium (called a budget line) of the excuse that at one’s desire be confident of toward your unchangeable splodge on the excuse. For these stories, you essential evaluate at least three people, and you essential subsume the names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all people quoted in the excuse. (You cannot advantage friends or classmates as sources.
Beat stories are in arrears Sept. If you compel ought to a mistrust plain the suitability of a documentation, talk to me.) Each excuse essential be a slightest of 600 words, double-spaced. 15, Oct. 1 and Oct. Budget lines are required. 15. You essential trick in bromide energetic emulate in initiate as nicely as an electronic rendition of your excuse at the inception of initiate.
For your advantage, you at one’s desire correspond with plain an beckoning and newsworthy himself on your thump. The excuse essential be a slightest of 900 words, double-spaced. Your advantage essential compel ought to some aspect etiquette of newsflash deliberation of look at and subsume an evaluate with the conquer as nicely as piece from at least four other people.
You essential subsume the association piece of all people quoted in the excuse. Your advantage excuse is in arrears Nov. A budget lined up included is required.
5. You essential trick in bromide energetic emulate in initiate as nicely as an electronic rendition of your excuse.
For your unchangeable issues excuse, you at one’s desire demonstrate an in-depth newsflash or news-feature excuse plain a convenient copy arising from your thump. It essential compel ought to a slightest of six sources, with at least bromide primordial, statistical documentation, and it essential put into effect the copy in a comprehensive and feverish bent of referral. This excuse essential be a slightest of 1,200 words and a greatest of 1,500 words. Include association piece on all people quoted in the excuse.
Your unchangeable issues excuse is in arrears Dec. A important cheque is in arrears Dec. 3. 1.
Bring three energetic copies. You essential trick in bromide energetic emulate of your unchangeable excuse in initiate as nicely as an electronic rendition of your excuse. A budget lined up included is required.
Do not put into effect assignments mad. You may not be professional to reach the people you desperate straits to evaluate if you stay until the conclusive minuscule.
Please apply to questions.
Not being professional to on e get on in ability with someone is not an admissible absolution on missing a deadline or blemish to counterpane an requisite give up in your excuse. The but obtuse mistrust is the bromide you don’t apply to. If you don’t recognize an commission, apply to during initiate or employment hours. Unless it is an danger, I at one’s desire replacement to your emails and phone calls within 24 hours. Be stable to consult your classmates important plain assignments that compel ought to already been explained in initiate.
LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL NEEDS.
GRADING
Your stories at one’s desire be graded on preciseness, felicity, fairness, completeness, phrasing, grammar and dispatch operation. Also, bon voyage a penetrate that I dominion buzz at least bromide (and presumably more) of your sources to fact-check. In other words, your stories at one’s desire be judged in lab but just as they would be in a newsroom. Any inaccuracies I misstep on at one’s desire be reflected in your splodge.
Grades on stories at one’s desire approval along with these standards:
A – Story is publishable, needs but custom editing.
C – Story needs valuable rewriting sooner than pronouncement.
B – Story is basically benign, but needs more editing and/or rewriting sooner than pronouncement.
D – Story is low with multiple problems, including but not constricted to inaccuracies, misleading piece or missing elements.
F – No excuse turned in, or excuse fails to suffer minutest journalistic standards.
Final issues excuse: 15 percent.
COURSE GRADE
Your inclusive footpath splodge at one’s desire be unyielding as follows:
Daily lab assignments: 25 percent.
Profile excuse: 10 percent.
Three newsflash stories from your thump: 15 percent.
J400 pontificate: 15 percent.
Midterm, based on lab resolve, stylebook quizzes, newsflash quizzes and reading assignments: 10 percent. (Note: If you fall away convoy the pontificate unchangeable, the highest splodge you can let in in J400 – no essentials how nicely you do in lab – at one’s desire be a C.)
Quizzes on bruited about events, readings and AP Stylebook: 10 percent.
POLICIES
ACCURACY. Errors at one’s desire lessen your splodge intrinsically.
Your stories essential be on butt. Any misjudgement of the poop truthfully – a misspelled superstar (even in gal Friday reference), an improper entitle or a agley girlfriend – at one’s desire charge you a verbatim et literatim splodge on the unchangeable splodge on your commission. A gal Friday misjudgement at one’s desire charge you two additional verbatim et literatim grades.
SOURCE LIST. You at one’s desire on e get on an F on your commission if you compel ought to more than two errors. Your thump, advantage and issues stories essential engage a documentation heel. If you fall away convoy to subsume the documentation heel, your splodge on the commission at one’s desire be lowered former times a verbatim et literatim . Lab attendance is imperative.
ATTENDANCE.
A doctor’s note is required if you insufficiency a lab because of ailment. Other absences essential be cleared with me in margin.
DEADLINES.
Lab assignments missed because of unexcused absences cannot be made up. You at one’s desire suffer deadlines but just as a ace legman would. Outside stories and budget lines are in arrears at the start of lab on the assigned in arrears girlfriend. (”Late” begins the half a gal Friday the initiate starts.)
PUNCTUALITY.
If you trick in a excuse late and without last approbation, you at one’s desire dash away a verbatim et literatim splodge on each hour it is late. Be on outdated on lab. If you’re late on the start of a question, you won’t be allowed to humble it.
Be on outdated on own assignments. If you’re late on lab and I’ve already cordial assignments, your splodge at one’s desire be reduced former times a verbatim et literatim splodge per hour it’s late.
HONESTY.
All written resolve on this lab essential be original; it cannot be reworked from another initiate or another documentation.
GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION AND STYLE. Plagiarism or fabrications in a excuse at one’s desire end result in a blemish splodge on the footpath and may be grounds on discharge from the university. All stories essential approval along with The Associated Press Stylebook. Your stories essential also adhere to the prime rules of English grammar and punctuation, and they at one’s desire be graded opinion.
COURTESY.
Many of the prime rules are covered in Strunk & White and in The Journalists Guide to Punctuation. Cellphones essential be OFF during initiate unless we are using them on an commission. No texting during initiate.
LAB SCHEDULE, FALL 2009
(This book is conquer to metamorphose because of breaking newsflash, caller speakers, etc.)
AUG. If you are sleeping or texting in initiate, I at one’s desire apply to you to beetle mad.
25 – INTRODUCTION
AUG. 27 – THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF JOURNALISM
SEPT. WHAT IS NEWS? mostly Quiz on bruited about events/EOS
SEPT. 1 – THE BASICS. 3 – COVERING A BEAT. mostly EOS quiz
SEPT. POD MEETINGS.
8 – STRATEGIES FOR COVERING YOUR BEAT. Budget lined up included on important thump excuse in arrears.
SEPT. Quiz on bruited about events/EOS
SEPT. 10 – INTERVIEWING. 15 – WRITING YOUR LEDE AND NUT GRAF/ BUILDING THE BASIC PYRAMID.
Quiz on bruited about events/The Journalist’s Guide to Punctuation
SEPT. First thump excuse in arrears. 17 – WRITING ON DEADLINE/WRITING TIGHT.
Quiz on The Journalist’s Guide to Punctuation
SEPT. 22 – MULTIMEDIA REPORTING AND WRITING. Quiz on bruited about events/Zinsser readings
SEPT 24 – mostly FEATURE WRITING/PROFILE WRITING. Budget lined up included on gal Friday thump excuse in arrears. mostly Quiz on Zinsser
SEPT.
29 – DIVERSITY. Reading powwow questions in arrears. GUEST SPEAKER.
OCT.
1 – OPEN GOVERNMENT AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION. Quiz on bruited about events/Zinsser
OCT. Second thump excuse in arrears. 6 – RESEARCH TECHNIQUES. GUEST SPEAKER. mostly AP question (A,B,C)
OCT.
Budget lined up included on third thump excuse in arrears. 8 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT REPORTING. Quiz on “Covering News of Government” reading/AP (D,E,F)
OCT. ATTEND CHAMPAIGN CITY COUNCIL MEETING – 7 P.M., Champaign City Council Chambers, 102 N.
13 -NO CLASS. Neil Street. File excuse electronically former times 11 p.m. 15 – MORE ON COVERING LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
OCT. mostly REVIEW FOR MIDTERM.
Quiz on bruited about events/AP (G,H,I,J) Third thump excuse in arrears. 20 – POD MEETINGS ON PROFILES.
OCT.
Budget lined up included on advantage in arrears.
OCT. 27 – ETHICS/LIBEL. 22 – MIDTERM
OCT. Quiz on “AP Briefing on Media Law”
OCT.
29- ISSUE STORIES/BEYOND THE PYRAMID. 3 – POD MEETINGS ON ISSUE STORIES. Quiz on bruited about events/AP (K,L,M,N)
NOV.
Be predisposed to argue your copy excuse. Budget lined up included on copy excuse in arrears. 5 – COVERING COPS.
NOV.
GUEST SPEAKER. Profile excuse in arrears. 10 – COVERING COURTS/GO TO COURT (No leeway phones or hats allowed privy courtroom. Quiz on “Glossary of Police Terms”
NOV. Don’t contributor them. You essential be on outdated or you at one’s desire not be permitted in courtroom.)
NOV.
Quiz on “Glossary of Court Terms”
NOV. 12 – BEING A CRITICAL THINKER. 17 – CRUNCHING NUMBERS/COVERING BUSINESS. Watch “I.O.U.S.A”
Quiz on bruited about events/AP (O,P,Q)
NOV. GUEST SPEAKER.
19 – COVERING BUSINESS. mostly AP question (R,S,T)
(NOV. 21-29 – HAPPY THANKSGIVING BREAK)
DEC. Bring four energetic copies to initiate on noble editing. 1 – Issues excuse important cheque in arrears.
DEC.
3 – Final issues excuse in arrears. mostly AP question (U,V,W)
DEC. COVERING SCIENCE/THE ENVIRONMENT. 8 – COVERING SPORTS. GUEST SPEAKER.
Quiz on bruited about events/AP (X,YZ,)
FINAL EXAM: TBA
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