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This course introduces students to writing in a professional environment and to the forms of writing for the mass media. These forms include news stories for print and broadcast, advertising copy for print and broadcast, and other types of writing for public relations.
 To get credit for this course, you must be enrolled in the lecture section and in a lab section. The lecture meets at 9 a.m. on Mondays in room 216 of Phifer Hall. The lab sections meet twice a week in one of the writing labs on the third floor of Phifer Hall.
Students must pass the College's Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation and Diction test before they can receive a grade for the course.
Texts
Three books are required for this course. They are Writing for the Mass Media (fifth edition) by James Glen Stovall; the Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual; and the Handbook for Writing for the Mass Media. You should also bring a dictionary to your lab.
Attendance
You are expected to attend all lectures and labs. Work missed in labs cannot be made up. Two or three of the lowest lab grades will be dropped at the end of the semester.
Attendance policies at the University are controlled by the professor of a course -- not a doctor, not the president of the University, and certainly not an employee of the athletic department. In MC102 there are no excused absenses -- for any reason.
When a student misses four lectures or eight lab sessions, instructors will stop grading their work. (Lab instructors may revise this policy to allow fewer absences if they wish.)
A student is counted as absent for the lecture if he or she arrives after the news quiz is given; a student who takes the news quiz and leaves is also counted as absent.
Grades
Grades will be calculated on the following formula
Academic misconduct
All students are expected to be honorable and observe standards of conduct appropriate to a community of scholars. The university expects for its students a higher standard of conduct than the minimum required to avoid discipline. All acts of dishonesty in any academic work constitute academic misconduct. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following:
- Cheating -- using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise.
- Plagiarism -- representing the words, ideas, or data of another as oneÕs own in any academic exercise.
- Fabrication -- unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in any academic exercise.
- Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty -- intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another student commit an act of academic dishonesty.
Academic misconduct matters shall be resolved by the divisional misconduct facilitator or the academic dean of the division in which the alleged action took place. Appeals from the academic dean's decisions may be made to the vice president for academic affairs.
Disability accommodations
To request disability accommodations,please contact the Office of Disability Services at 348-4285. After initial arrangements are made with that office, contact your professor.
Schedule
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 Grammar, punctuation and words; style
Week 3 Writing in the media environment
Week 4, 5 News and newswriting
Week 6, 7 Writing for the Web
Week 8 Editing and rewriting; midterm
Week 9, 10 Writing for broadcast
Week 11, 12 Writing advertising copy
Week 13, 14 Writing for public relations
Week 15 Ethical and legal considerations
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