By this time in the semester, students should have traveled a great distance in their understanding of journalism and in their acquisition and practice of the skills involved in producing good journalism.

• Students should have a good grip on the basic principles of writing and the expectations of the audience, the medium they are using, and the profession in which they operate.
  
  
• They should know what it means to gather useful and original information from credible sources.
  
  
• They should be able to use basic equipment (the computer, digital camera, digital recorder, etc.)
  
  
• Students should be able to confidently use the different forms of writing to adapt to whatever medium is most useful in presenting the information.
  
  

This knowledge and set of skills should be brought to bear on the final project for the course: an audio slide show. During this week's lecture, we will discuss in some detail what is involved in putting together an audio slide show.

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Putting it all together

Possible writing lab activities for next week (the week after spring break)

-- Review lecture points as necessary; comments, questions?
-- In-class writing assignments: exercise in writing a script for an audio slide show (JPROF)
-- Assign news story to be reported that week and written during second lab of the week; story should include headline, summary, links, nutshell form; pictures and cutlines; full inverted pyramid structure; should be entered onto the TNJN server.

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