Inquiry:
This is your final week. On your blog, reflect on your learning journey and respond to the following
questions:
What did you find most beneficial about the course?
What was most challenging?
Has the course changed the way you practice or think about media writing, and in what ways or why not?
This course has made me look more closely at news reports, both written and broadcast. It has helped me to refine my own writing (Ames, 2014).
I found the quizzes to be the most beneficial and at the same time, the most challenging. Then, incorporating what I have learned into my writing, was the biggest challenge of all.
The course has changed the way I look at media reports. Instead of looking at what the writer or speaker is taking about, I now look at how they write or talk about it. Some of the things I now look at are:
References:
Ames, K., 2014. Study Guide Lessons 1-12 Course notes, COMM11007 Media Writing: CQUniversity e-courses, http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/.
Hicks, W., 2013. English for journalists. 4th ed. New York: Routledge.
Whitaker, W. R., Ramsey, J. E. & Smith, R. D., 2012. Meda Writing, print broadcast and public relations. 4th ed. New York: Routledge.
This is your final week. On your blog, reflect on your learning journey and respond to the following
questions:
What did you find most beneficial about the course?
What was most challenging?
Has the course changed the way you practice or think about media writing, and in what ways or why not?
This course has made me look more closely at news reports, both written and broadcast. It has helped me to refine my own writing (Ames, 2014).
I found the quizzes to be the most beneficial and at the same time, the most challenging. Then, incorporating what I have learned into my writing, was the biggest challenge of all.
The course has changed the way I look at media reports. Instead of looking at what the writer or speaker is taking about, I now look at how they write or talk about it. Some of the things I now look at are:
- How they introduce the topic,
- When they bring in certain points,
- Whether there are any descriptive words that influence the audience,
- Whether there is there a tone to the writing and
- Whether it is persuasive text, cleverly masked (Ames, 2014).
References:
Ames, K., 2014. Study Guide Lessons 1-12 Course notes, COMM11007 Media Writing: CQUniversity e-courses, http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/.
Hicks, W., 2013. English for journalists. 4th ed. New York: Routledge.
Whitaker, W. R., Ramsey, J. E. & Smith, R. D., 2012. Meda Writing, print broadcast and public relations. 4th ed. New York: Routledge.
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