Journalism Practice I 100 Hours Certificate Course

1 Working To Specification

• Introduction
• Writing Specifications (Specs)
• Consistency
• Sustaining a Profitable Career in Journalism
• How Fast You Need to Write
• Probem of Quality Without Speed
• Increasing Profitability With Illustration
• Getting Extra For Your Writing
• PBL Project (see below for details)

2 Publishing Online - Electronic Publications

• Introduction
• How Material is Published Online
• Change is the New Normal
• Management Systems
• Example of a Management System

Set Task:

Carry out research into what is required to submit articles for publishing in three different online publications. These might be online ezines, blogs, newsletters, social media, or any other places that will accept and publish submissions of 2 or more paragraphs. This does not include social media, forums, comment boxes, or other such places that will only accept very short statements up to a couple of sentences.Take notes.

3 Writing and Submitting Articles

• Introduction
• Digital Writing
• Legal Changes
• Styling an Article

Set Task:

Write an article of approximately 1500 words for online publishing on a subject of your own choosing. Submit the article online to a web publisher. Inform your tutor by email after you have completed your submission and where and how you have submitted it. Once your tutor confirms you have submitted the article properly, answer the assignment questions.

4 Revising Submitted Work

• Introduction

Set Task:

1 Browse the web for articles on a topic that interests you, and report on the following:

• 10 web pages (not advertising pages) that you caught and held your attention
• What kept you on a webpage (ie. made the page most interesting to you)?
• How easy or difficult the articles were to read.
• How important was the way it was written?
• How important was the way it was styled?

2 Carry out some research

Please Note: Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the Academy, marked by the Academy's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.