Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne Australia
Future Students - Courses
Duration
Contact Hours
Campus
Prerequisite
Corequisite
12 weeks or equivalent
3 Hours per Week
Lilydale
Nil
Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points
A unit of study in the Graduate Certificate of Arts (Writing), Graduate Diploma of Arts (Writing) and Master of Arts (Writing)
In this unit students will: Gain insights into how journalists define news and construct news stories. Develop their understanding of how news stories are structured. Compare and contrast news practices of newspapers, radio and television. Investigate critical and cultural theories which provide insights into the new industry. Upon completion, students will have: Skills in writing news stories. An understanding of conventions of journalistic reporting. Insights into journalistic constraints and ethics. An understanding of the language of radio. Skills in writing for the eye in television.
In this unit students will:
Virtual lectures, virtual tutorials, electronic media, reading and practical exercises and e-tutors, e-mentors and e-peer groups.
Piece for publication 60%, Participation in weekly Discussion Threads and online exercises 40%
Clearly, the structure of the news story must match the place of publication and understand the required format. This unit will enable students to produce a folio of writing which encompasses: News and news value The temporal order of news stories Wordiness ‘The intro’ The body of the story News formats The human interest story Features News practice and discourse. Foreign news and ideology Writing a radio news story Writing a TV news story. Local news: notional and ideology, especially indigenous issues
Clearly, the structure of the news story must match the place of publication and understand the required format. This unit will enable students to produce a folio of writing which encompasses:
Allan, S. 2005, Journalism: Critical Issues, Open University Press, Maidenhead. Arnold, J. 2007 Practice Led Research: A dynamic way to knowledge, Melbourne, Rock View Press. Eunson, Baden, 2005. Communicating in the 21st Century. Sydney: John Wiley & Sons. Fox W. 2001, Writing the News: A Guide for Print Journalists, London: John Wiley & Sons. Holm, K. (ed.) 2000, Writers Market: 8,000 Editors Who Buy What You Write, Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books. Hurst J. 2007. Ethics in Journalism: Arguments and Cases, Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Kovach, B. & Rosenstiel, T. 2007, The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect. Opelousas, LA: Three Rivers Press. Kramer, M. & Call, W. (eds.). 2007, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. New York: Plume. Loffelholz, M. (ed.) 2008, Global Journalism Research, London: John Wiley & Sons. The Macquarie Dictionary. The Macquarie Thesaurus. The Macquarie website: http://www.macnet.mq.edu.au Paul, N. M. 1999, Computer-Assisted Research: A Guide to Tapping Online Information for Journalists, U.S.: Bonns Books. Pearson, M. 2004, The Journalist’s Guide to Media Law: Dealing with Legal and Ethical Issues. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. Phillips, G. 2006, Australian Broadcast Journalism. South Melbourne: OUP. Shields, Pam., 2000, Poet’s market: 1,800 places to publish your poetry, Cincinatti, OH: Writer’s Digest Books. Starkey, G. 2006, Balance and Bias in Journalism: Representation Regulation and Democracy. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Strunk, W, The Elements of Style (any recent edition) or online: http://www.bartleby.com/141/ And the following electronic resources: Canadian Journal of Communication. http://cjc-online.ca/ Columbia Journalism Review. www.cjr.org. The Future of the Printed Press: Challenges in a Digital World, European Journalism Centre: http://www.ejc.nl/hp/fpp/contents.html Poynter Online. http://www.poynter.org/ Reporter’s Toolbox. http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/newsreporting.html Weekly hypertext weblinks.
