Magazine Project

Today:

Please work on your magazine projects in the lab. By the end of class today, you should have completed at least 2 articles: features or short articles.

Again, don't worry about formatting UNTIL you write your 5 articles. If you have 2 people in your group, that means between you, you have 10 articles (6 feature articles and 4 shorter articles). If you have 3 people in your group, that's 15 articles (9 features/6 short articles).

Again, features come in 7 flavors:

• The Human Interest feature
• The Personality feature
• The News feature
• The Informative feature
• The "Best of" feature
• The "How to" feature
• The Past Events feature

One (per group member) article could be:

• An editorial 
• A puzzle/crossword, sudoku, comic strip, etc.
• A poem or short story
• A horoscope or advice column
• Etc. (practically any idea or model from magazines you've read) 

Articles (short or long) should consider the worth of their news. Articles should:

• Impact your audience
• Deal with a conflict that your audience might be interested in
• Deal with loss, destruction, or conflict (see above)
• Have some relevance (perhaps proximity) for your audience
• Include subject matter or subjects that have prominence
• Be timely
• Should be creative or have novelty

REMEMBER: You are not writing articles TOGETHER--you are writing your own articles and using your group members to help you with design and editing. Every student is responsible for 5 articles!

DO NOT WASTE YOUR CLASS TIME! I'll set the deadline for this project after seeing how you work in the lab today.

HOMEWORK: Please read chapter 6 in The Other Wes Moore. You should have completed parts 1 & 2 of this book by next class. If you are ahead, please aim to finish the book. There WILL be a test on it end of next week!