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Class schedule (subject to change)
Topics
Assigned
Due
Jan. 15 Introduction, knowledge quizzes, website


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

 

 

 

Jan. 24 My grammar basics, student papers, Strategy 25 (textbook grammar tips); journals  
Jan. 29

ACES grammar;
Grammar Fun from The Oatmeal, Word Crimes (Weird Al) and Grammar Girl; Grammar Day (March 4) resources from Grammarly; are you a Grammar nerd?

 

 

 

Journal #1

 

 

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
(hand in on paper)

Feb. 5 Words, Style cont. Punctuation. Strategy 27 (punctuation); One more list (for foreigners);
Spelling, Strategy 26;

 

 

 

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:
1) word
2) catch
3) headline

 

 

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


Dow Jones tests; Story editing, story labs—"Crash" and "Storm"; If interested in Dow Jones test, you register here;

 

 

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

Math for journalists and a test

Story edits Grammar Ex. 3; Journal #2
Feb. 26

FactCheck.org; Frank Fee's 44 accuracy tips Strategy 28; test review

 

 

 
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
and 9 Tips for stronger ones (compare)

Story edits

 

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

 
Mar. 12/14

Spring Break

 

 

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)


Headlines 1

 

Mar. 21 Typography, readability/legibility ; Crash course    
Mar. 26

Measurements, I love Typography;



 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

 

 

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;

 

Flyer InDesign fonts
Apr. 9

InDesign lab; ColorCC from Adobe (also an extension in InDesign)

   
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

 

 

Apr. 25 Newsletter; Catch up, lab, critique newsletters; my tips on readability of text; InDesign (master pages, styles, tabs, etc.)

Newsletter

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
   
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)

May 7 Final exam, written (since last test) and hands-on InDesign.   Newsletter
Final Exam May 7, 2 p.m. Hands-on images: 1, 2

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