The final assignment for EL 227 was the dreaded, 1500 word Feature Article. A monster, feared by every student who has set foot in EL 227, devours students time, patience, and sanity, while sucking any lives that the students in this class may or may not have already had.
Now that the semester is coming to a close, and I've survived half a year of Newswriting, I find it an obligation to ask myself, do i want to be a journalist?
This semester is finally coming to a close and this will be my final blogging portfolio for EL 227. As tough as it was sometimes, consistenly blogging is a great way to constantly learn. The skill of thinking critically has given the ability to enjoy and use these blogs for my own needs. Thanks eveyone for a great year and I know that this will help me and all of my classmates throughout our college careers.
Well, this is it! This is the last blogging portfolio for EL 250. Just when I started getting the hang of it! In all seriousness, blogging is a skill that I will be able to take with me from college and use for the rest of my life.
It's been a great experience. I've learned so much from blogs. I've used them to express my opinions. I've used them to discuss issues with other people. I've used them to learn more about literature by using other people's knowledge. Also, these blogs gave me a chance to learn about who I am sharing the college experience with. Through them I've made friendships that I hope will last throughout my time here at Seton Hill. I've learned about people and about respecting other's values and beliefs.
Blogging hasn't only showed me how to be a student, it's showed me how to keep and open mind and it's helped me develope my character. If you would have asked me at the beginning of the semester what I thought about blogging, you would have found a much different opinion than I have now. The experience has been great and I hope it's the foundation of a great college career here at SHU!
Three young journalists... three different chapters... one common goal.
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Opinion on class discussion Fri. Nov. 18,2005 - Prof. Bernhardi (Finish)
I think that by explaining what Roberto Clemente dealt with really shows what the times were like back then and it gives you an idea of what Troy from "Fences" is talking about.
This is a coverpage for my entries from 10-19 to present.
The reading of chapter 9 involved small details. After reading the chapter, it seems to me that journalism is also like being a detective. The example that the text gave of Jules Loh finding something wrong with Herbert Hoover's pencils really showed how journalists must pay attentions to all of the information about their story. That one little point opened a whole new angle of a story.
Another section of the text was interesting to me. Involving color in a news story isn't as easy as it seems. It read, "Color implies a way of seeing a story so you can show the reader. Adjectives and intensifiers have nothing to do with it-they are, in fact, great decievers." This shows taht newswriting is more of a challenge than other types of writing. Readers need to make their own reactions to the stories with out writers telling them what to think.
This play struck me in a very emotional way. I found this play to be very interesting for many reasons.
This is a coverpage for all of my blog entries from 10/1 to 11/4.
Due to a 10:00 departure time for the Seton Hill Cross Country team, I will miss EL 227 on Friday, Nov. 4, 2005. Instead, I spent that class time blogging. This is the coverpage for what I've done instead of class.
