Teaching English in the Two-Year College
May 1998
Using Journalism Writing to Improve College Composition
Abstract
Details a first-year college composition course that blends journalism instruction with first-year composition. Describes how students learn about news gathering and news writing techniques common to feature writing and complete a profile writing project which encourages a level of discourse that bears closer kinship to everyday workplace writing. Discusses course design, implementation, and evaluation.
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- Teaching English in the Two-Year College
- Published
- 1998-05-01
- DOI
- 10.58680/tetyc19983863
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