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Jan. 15 | Introduction, knowledge quizzes, website
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Current events, journals | |
Jan. 17 | The profession (Strategies: Intro, 1, 2, 5, 6, 23, 46, 47, 49, 50); Dow Jones tests/internships; textbook site; Dow Jones 2018 test; | ||
Jan. 22 |
Dow Jones 2018 (cont.); why editing tests may be going too far; MSWord typography (handout), lab, bicycle story exercise; try this practice file. Read NDDB Chapter 9 |
Bicycle exercise
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Jan. 24 | My grammar basics, student papers, Strategy 25 (textbook grammar tips); journals | ||
Jan. 29 | ACES grammar; |
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Journal #1
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Jan. 31 | Style Basics from Journalist's Resource; Strategy 24. My AP style basics; Wikipedia style guide AP style A-E, trademarks; AP's Twitter feed; other Twitter editing accounts: |
Grammar Ex. 1 |
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Feb. 5 | Words, Style cont. Punctuation. Strategy 27 (punctuation); One more list (for foreigners); Spelling, Strategy 26; |
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Bicycle exercise |
Feb. 7 | AP style F-N; editing symbols (handout) | Grammar Ex. 2 (on paper) | Grammar Ex. 1 |
Feb. 12 |
Stop the Presses! I; UNC spelling test
My cliches list |
Journal #2: Work on your second set of: |
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Feb. 14 | Style as ethical decision (handout); plagiarism quiz Strategies on ethical issues (11, 20, 39, 40, 47); AP style O-Z; |
Grammar Ex. 3 (on paper) | Grammar Ex. 2 |
Feb. 19
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Dow Jones tests; Story editing, story labs—"Crash" and "Storm"; If interested in Dow Jones test, you register here; |
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Feb. 21 | Verification Handbook(see 4.2 "Street sharks" and 5.1 Boston bombing; article on 7 things to consider before fact-checking; reverse image search (this was used later in a falsified tweet); the 9/11 tourist photo | Story edits | Grammar Ex. 3; Journal #2 |
Feb. 26 | FactCheck.org; Frank Fee's 44 accuracy tips
Strategy 28; test review |
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Feb. 28 | TEST #1 | ||
Mar. 5 | Stop the Presses! II; Legal issues, Strategy 31; copyediting for reporters Headlines;
Strategy 41; Poynter's 10 questions for good headlines |
Story edits
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Mar. 7 | Headlines, writing for Web: Poynter webinars (here's one page from Eric Ulken's Poynter course; a good list from Search Engine Watch; Best tips and make-overs from Kurt Gessler and one more; analysis of 1 million shareable words | Headlines Ex. 1 |
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Mar. 12/14 | Spring Break |
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Mar. 19 | Headlines;
Headline humor 2018 (but lots of these are old); Maynard Institute on display type and SEO; front pages on the Newseum site. Take a look at CNN home page and click-through heds. And dump the text from a CNN story into Reuter's Open Calais demo.
Google Trends.
Begin typography—categories; see Google's Material Design and Font Squirrel (and see their Classifications list) |
Headlines Ex. 2 (SEO heds)
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Headlines 1
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Mar. 21 | Typography, readability/legibility ; Crash course | ||
Mar. 26 | Measurements, I love Typography;
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Headlines 2 |
Mar. 28 | Typography, Adobe Help InDesign tutorials; the InDesign User Guide; Web vs. print fonts; picas and points; a design workshop for business cards from John McWade of Before & After magazine. | InDesign fonts | |
Apr. 2 | InDesign lab; design principles I and some design links 1, 2, 3; here's a proximity violation; and one from Robin Williams NDDBook chapters 1-5; images and file types (notes) |
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Apr. 4 | InDesign lab; design principles II, color wheels; NDDBook Chapter 6, 7, 8 ; color site, one more, or try schemes here (Web) and RGB vs. CMYK;
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Flyer | InDesign fonts |
Apr. 9 | InDesign lab; ColorCC from Adobe (also an extension in InDesign) |
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Apr. 11 | InDesign lab, (finish flyer) and link to free 7-day trial of InDesign (do that later!); also Scribus free digital publishing platform |
Flyer | |
Apr. 16 | Brochure—text cleaning, runarounds, polygon picture boxes, breaking the gutters, threading text … | Brochure | |
Apr. 18 | InDesign lab (plan, work on brochure); Type contrasts NDDB Chapter 12 | ||
Apr. 23 | Finish brochure; Photo editing I: digital history of retouching; Strategy 44 |
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Apr. 25 | Newsletter; Catch up, lab, critique newsletters; my tips on readability of text; InDesign (master pages, styles, tabs, etc.) |
Reminder of final journal entries (#3) |
Brochure |
Apr. 30 | Work on newsletters; e-mail newsletters (Lily Lines from the Washington Post (see Webinar summary); Economist strategy); my tips on copyfitting |
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May 2 | E-publishing, or see ENG410 projects, also issuu and Publish online from within InDesign; adding interactivity in InDesign; Adobe Spark; exam review | Journal #3 (Friday is OK) |
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May 7 | Final exam, written (since last test) and hands-on InDesign. | Newsletter | |