Journalistic Writing

Term
Format
Online
Subject Area
Course Number
ENGL 511 640
Course Code
ENGL511640
Course Key
73955
Day(s)
Tuesday
Time
5:15pm-7:55pm
Instructor
Primary Program
Course Description
In this course, we will explore journalism from straight news to narrative longform and hone skills like developing news judgment, finding stories, interviewing, reporting, researching, and understanding and engaging with audiences. For models, we will read from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and websites. We may consider works ranging from Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah’s Pulitzer Prize–winning profile “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof'' in GQ, to Adam Serwer’s political commentary for The Atlantic, to Pamela Colloff’s longform exposé of the flawed forensic science of blood splatter analysis in ProPublica. Along the way, students will write a straight news article, a profile, a work of commentary or criticism, and a feature. We will workshop drafts of these major writing assignments as a class, and a final portfolio of revised assignments will be due at the end of the semester.
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