Eye-Opener: Memo

Setonian Experience parallels with News Writing Class

Katie Lambert asked in class today: how was news writing principles learned in class applied by Setonian writers in their articles?

Evans answered: "We're all masochist!"

My experience was not necessarily masochistic, and it can be summed up to the following phrase: "I lose a sense of time when I'm in a writing mode, trying to perfect a news article (whether feature or not), making sure the quote is well used, etc."

Personally, technically, this class would have been really helpful when I was starting out. The great thing was that I learned most of these technicalities (AP style) while I was writing, when I made the mistakes. In my case this was better because the new information was forever imbedded in my brain.

This semester, rather than learning the basics (which I feel that I've grasped), I learned how to refine the techniques I've learned in interviewing, writing features, reporting, writings and reading news.