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Response to the 10 Elements of Good Journalism

     To say the least, I loved listening to this lecture. To open the year talking about something so basic yet so important oriented me to the class. Hearing what such highly trained, long standing journalists think are the most important elements of journalism was so interesting because my love for writing urges me to want to know these standards so I can both use them as guidelines for myself as well as be a good critic of others. During our class discussion, the element of making the important interesting felt the most familiar. I believe this is because when writing, I always strive to capture interest and I know what it feels like to read a book or article you never want to put down. The common goal through my writing in to educate, however, reading something that just spits facts at you can be boring and feel like a burden rather than a thought provoking lesson. Personally, writing poetry particularly has taught me how to articulate my words in a way that is grabbing for a reader.  Through practice, I translate those lessons into journalism.



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