How to be a Journalist 1.0: Writing News, Blog Writing, Pitching Freelance Stories, Building Contacts

How to be a Journalist 1.0: Writing News, Blog Writing, Pitching Freelance Stories, Building Contacts Review

A practical ebook with chapters on writing news, identifying stories, blog writing, contacts, pitching freelance stories and how to get a job. This book is aimed at student journalists, or new journalists who wish to improve their techniques. Writing news is the most important skill a journalist can have. This book will give you the basic grounding in writing and seeking out stories that you can do, and write for money. David Stephenson works at a national newspaper, and knows what stories work for papers and websites. His book includes chapters, such as Five Ways to Instantly Improve Your Writing, Selling Your Freelance Stories, and How to Build Contacts. It's a great introduction for new journalists, at a bargain price.

iWrite: Using Blogs, Wikis, and Digital Stories in the English Classroom

iWrite: Using Blogs, Wikis, and Digital Stories in the English Classroom Review

"It's not that our students aren't reading and writing, but that where and what they are reading and writing is off the school radar. We can build a bridge between the literate lives of our students outside of school and the literacies we want to teach them."

--Dana J. Wilber

The power of Dana Wilber's insight is in its simplicity. Students are texting, networking, and blogging- i.e., writing and reading- all the time, everywhere, just maybe in places we aren't necessarily paying attention to. Build on their authentic interest and motivation using the technologies they are already committed to and you've won half the battle. You won't believe how engaged they are; they won't believe they're learning for school.

In iWrite, Dana shows you how to guide students through the complexity of new literacies, including:

• how to discern between media
• how to account for audience and voice
• how to choose appropriate genre
• and how to harness what they already know to be more successful in school.

Dana deftly elucidates the lives of Millennials, those students growing up around the turn of the 21^st century, and the technologies embedded into their everyday reading and writing. She shows us how three accessible tools-wikis, blogs, and digital storytelling -can be used to scaffold learning for our students. And she demonstrates how they can help us address 10 key issues in the literacies of today's students:

oSafety

oAuthenticity

oPractice

oRelevance

oMeaning and identity

oInterest and inquiry

oCognitive development

oCommunity

oProcess

oMotivation

Let iWrite show you how to capture students' daily literacy practices and develop them for the kind of writing we want them to learn.

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More Review

When you finally have the opportunity to sit down and write, you want absolutely nothing to get in your way. In an ideal world, the ideas would flow from head to pen quickly and easily. You would have thousands of ideas at your fingertips. This new idea-generating book makes that dream a reality. With exactly one thousand prompts, 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More is truly a cure for writer's block. These story starters cover a large range of topics, including: * Holidays * College * Health * Regrets * Nature * Shakespeare * Religion * The American Dream * ...and over 40 more! These prompts help you to write from the heart so that you can relate to your audience. They work for blogs, scripts, stories, poems, essays and anything else that requires that you write with no interruptions.

Xangans: Stories From the World's Greatest Blogging Community

Xangans: Stories From the World's Greatest Blogging Community Review

Xangans are unique; they are the only blogging community who have named themselves after their on-line playground, Xanga.com, The World's Greatest Blogging Community. It is their jungle, their pulpit and endless party, Xanga. Knowing each other well onscreen, yet rarely meeting in real life, they form an Empire on which the Sun never Sets, straddling the world from Detroit to Liverpool, from Toronto to Singapore. Entertaining, quarrelsome, compassionate, bitchy, they have used Xanga to express their talents, their beliefs, their confusions, their pain, their joy, until it has become an essential and enduring part of their lives. I first joined Xanga in 2006. I too flirted with other blogging systems, and saw them swell to vast size, only to dwindled into irrelevance; Xanga has remained the only one in which the written word has ruled and flourished. In this collection of thirty-three blogs, stories and poems by Xangans writing today, some published writers, some - as yet - unknown, we hear the voices of on-line authors struggling to make sense of this world. From the raw cynicism of Lindensmith's "Another Night on the Town" to the life-affirming cheer of Lyne Hamel's "Blessings," we pass through eroticism, through the joys and terrors of love, through the conflicts of religion and the confusions of society, through satire, humor, horror and sentiment.