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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: The Basics

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p><p>Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach the foundations of our craft? Here, <strong>Mary McGuire</strong> has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following:</p>

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10 Sep

Junod on the story that changed his writing

In 1995, Tom Junod wrote a compelling but disturbing story about a serial rapist. Now, he says that “The Rapist Says He’s Sorry changed my writing, and then it changed […]

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29 Jun

A new style guide for web writing

Yahoo has decided it’s time for an alternative to traditional style guides when it comes to text written for the Web. In July, 2010, it will launch The Yahoo! Style Guide: The […]

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26 Jan

How I taught my students to think about the journalism they read

There’s no way students will read 5000-word articles every week, colleagues told Ryerson j-prof Bill Reynolds. But they did, and Reynolds learned that despite the various narcotics of the web, […]

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8 Dec

Write or die: teaching students to write quickly

When teaching my students to write first drafts quickly, explains Mark Hamilton, the web-based tool Write or Die is a big help. It puts emphasis on the revision stage and […]

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16 Mar

Go long and go deep: teaching literary journalism

By Bill Reynolds One of the best ways I have found to teach the work of the writers who depend on Tom Wolfe’s four horsemen of the literary journalism apocalypse […]

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6 Dec

Daily writing tips from professional writers

This website is produced by four professional writers who use it to share lots of general advice about writing. But it also includes links to pages about such things as The Art […]

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2 Oct

George Orwell’s writing tips

George Orwell’s classic 1946 essay The Politics of the English Language provides timeless advice for writing clearly and powerfully. This is a short summary of his five basic rules.

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27 Sep

Tips from a newspaper writing coach

A long-time reporter, editor and writing coach, Steve Buttry, has some great advice for reporters on everything from writing short to writing with emotional authenticity. Buttry is now director of […]

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10 Sep

Said vs. Says

If you struggle to explain to students when it is appropriate to use “says” vs. “said” in their stories, you may find some guidance from these editors and writers. In this piece, the […]

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