Designed by University of Massachusetts Journalism Professor Sara Grimes to teach news writing and magazine article writing on the World-Wide Web during the 1996 Spring Semester at the University of Massachusetts, this site was archived in June 1996 to preserve for future study the scheduleof assignments and best student work.
"I tried to bring the instincts of a scholar to the
service of journalism; to take nothing for granted; to turn journalism
into literature; to provide radical analysis with a conscientious concern
for accuracy, and in studying the current scene to do my very best to
preserve human values and free institutions."
-- I.F. Stone
Can the World-Wide Web help educators teach values and practices espoused by serious journalists? Or will it only further cloud the very definition of what a journalist is or should be -- drawing all of us further into the fog of mind-numbing media commercialism and info-entertainment?Stay tuned ...
Assigned Readings
Elements of
Style by William Strunk, Jr.
"I Say It's Mudpath"
The
King's English by H.W. Fowler
Editor's note: The English lexicographer Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933)
is best known for his A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. According to
the 1993 edition of Grolier Electronic Publishing: "Fowler's books are
esteemed and authoritative, and have gone through many editions and
reprintings."
Introduction,
Best Newspaper Writing of 1995,
Poynter Institute of Media Studies
"Cybersources" from Katherine Fulton's
article titled http:www.journalism.now/A tour of our uncertain future
from the March/April 1996 issue of Columbia Journalism Review
Important dates: April 4 - College newspaper WWW site; April 11 -- HTML class, April 16 -- Graphics class; April 25 -- Home Page presentation.
Copyright (C) 1995, Sara Grimes Journalism Department University of Massachusetts/Amherst All rights reserved.
Last update: June 2, 1996