Dynamics of Writing: An Exercise Guide gives students multiple opportunities to practice their writing skills in-class or as take-home assignments. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the newswriting process and offers short-answer, multiple-choice, and writing-prompt activities to help students master the concepts and skills presented in Vincent F. Filak’s comprehensive book. Additional exercises built around the unique demands of online newswriting will prepare students to meet the demands of a changing media landscape.
Key Features:
- ‘Writing Exercises’ enable students to recall & demonstrate their understanding of various elements found in each chapter in Dynamics of News Writing and Reporting.
- ‘Practice Writing’ exercises empower students to apply their knowledge in a safe, in-class environment.
- ‘Live-Action Exercises’ encourage students to expand their knowledge and experience through out-of-class reporting and writing opportunities.
Bundle this workbook with Dynamics of News Writing and Reporting.
Tabla de materias
Chapter 1. Audience-Centric Journalism
Chapter 2. Critical Thinking
Chapter 3. Basics of Writing
Chapter 4. Expanded News Writing
Chapter 5. Social Media
Chapter 6. Interviewing
Chapter 7. Basic Reporting: News That Finds You
Chapter 8. Beyond Basic Reporting: News You Have to Find
Chapter 9. Broadcast-Style Writing and Voicing
Chapter 10. Collecting Audio and Visuals in the Field
Chapter 11. Editing Audio and Video
Chapter 12. Law and the Media
Chapter 13. Ethics
Answer Key
Sobre el autor
Vincent F. Filak, Ph.D., is an award-winning teacher and scholar who serves as a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he primarily teaches courses on media writing and reporting. Prior to his arrival at UWO, he served on the faculty at Ball State University and also taught courses at the University of Missouri and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also previously worked for the Wisconsin State Journal and the Columbia Missourian newspapers. He was also unanimously voted and selected as the next editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.The Associated Collegiate Press honored him as part of the organization’s inaugural class of Pioneer Award Winners in 2022. The Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication presented him with the Educator of the Year award in 2021, a year after he was honored by the National Society of Leadership and Success with an Excellence in Teaching award. In 2019, he received the Friend of KEMPA award for his work with high school journalism students through the Kettle Moraine Press Association. In addition, he has received awards from the College Media Association (CMA) and the National Scholastic Press Association for his work as a college media adviser and a mentor to high school journalists.As a scholar, Filak has received thirteen top conference paper awards, including those from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Broadcast Education Association, and the International Public Relations Society of America. He has published more than thirty scholarly, peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals, including Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, the Newspaper Research Journal, the Atlantic Journal of Communication, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, the Howard Journal of Communication, Educational Psychology, and the British Journal of Social Psychology. He is also the winner of CMA’s Nordin Research Award, which goes to the best research paper completed on a topic pertaining to media advisers within a given year.He has published several textbooks in the field of journalism, including Dynamics of Media Writing (SAGE), Dynamics of News Reporting and Writing (SAGE), Dynamics of Media Editing (SAGE), Convergent Journalism (Focal), and The Journalist’s Handbook to Online Editing (with Kenneth Rosenauer; Pearson). He also blogs about media-related topics at Dynamics Of Writing.com.xxiv He lives outside Auroraville, Wisconsin, with his wife, Amy, and their daughter, Zoe.
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