At the beginning of the semester I was pretty nervous about starting this class, primarily because I thought it was going to be overly challenging. I knew that developing strong professional and technical writing would be a valuable skill that would serve me in several ways throughout the rest of my college career and likely … [Read more…]
When we first started working on the news release I was kind of intimidated because based off of the book’s description, it requires very specific formatting and word choice to be effective without sounding too much like an advertisement. After going through the workshop process as a class and completing the project I definitely feel … [Read more…]
This chapter provided me with some very helpful information about group presentations, and how to make them as clean and effective as possible. The chapter first mentioned the importance of having a group leader, a designated member responsible for the organization of the presentation, the introduction, conclusion, and leading the question and answer portion. The … [Read more…]
My role in creating the news release for the Cleaning Critter was primarily about creating desire. At first this piece was hard for me to work on, as it goes hand in hand with the interest portion and therefore reflects the same ideas very closely. As a part of my role I took a step … [Read more…]
Peer review definitely gave us some key things to work on during the editing process of our news release. For example, we moved around some of the paragraphs so that all of the important features were mentioned throughout the article, however they were made more concise so that it didn’t sound repetitive. We also added … [Read more…]
I thought that this chapter about news releases was very interesting to read and learn about. The first big point that I picked up on was that your story should be something that is actually considered newsworthy, meaning it’s current and important information. Your story shouldn’t just be an advertisement for a new product, but … [Read more…]
I really enjoyed working as a team on this project and I think the end result was a variety of beautifully crafted brochures. In my opinion, the collaboration for my group went very well for the amount of disruptions we had to adjust our plans to and around. We were able to communicate very freely … [Read more…]
