COMS 4505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Asteroid Family, Channel Surfing

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 4505
• Professor: Howard Fremeth

Document Summary

Intro to news releases and media savvy writing workshop. Due next week march 7th at the beginning of class. Based around the topic you are passionate about. Go read a speech or an op-ed as a starting point. Remember the importance of the form strong beginning, cohesive narrative, and a conclusion that brings it all together. Take a position, make it clear to your readers, use simple language, build up your argument, support it with facts and with stories, then wrap it up. I(cid:374)clude a su(cid:373)(cid:373)ary of (cid:449)ho the speaker is, (cid:449)ho they"re speaki(cid:374)g o(cid:374) behalf of, and where they are doing the speech. You know it when you see it. The purpose is to focus on the user experience. Academic or formal writing has structure, citations, headings very scripted, logical, well-designed format. Think about how you consume media you skim, you channel surf, you open multiple web pages, you click on hyperlinks.