Writing for the Future: For 3/24

Contact info for previous speakers:
1) Randy Noles, publisher and editor  of Winter Park Magazine: randyn@floridahomemedia.com
2) Jennifer DeWitt, marketing & communications for Rollins College: jdewitt@rollins.edu

Update on Paper 5:
Paper 5 will be assigned on 3/31 and will be due on 4/7.

This week, we will have another speaker from the world of marketing and communications. Please come prepared with questions, the more specific the better.

Also, come prepared to work on your group projects. Remember, they will be due the following week, 3/31.

Writing for the Future: Fox Day

Just to clear things up, the official Rollins policy for Writing for the Future is that if Fox Day happens to be on a Tuesday this semester, all of my students (including both Holt and day school students) should come to class at the regular time, 4 pm.  I’ll let you out at 6 pm, a half-hour early.

Writing for the Future: For 3/17

Group Project

This week, we'll be both catching up on some things and looking ahead to others.

We'll be catching up on Paper 4. Some of you may have made changes on it. In any case, please remember to bring it in this week.

We'll also try to catch up on that in-class interviewing exercise. Please bring the notes you took for that.

As for looking ahead, we'll be forming small groups to begin work on your group project. Please give this some thought before class. What sort of topic or topics would you like your group project to cover?

Writing for the Future: For 3/10

In your text, on page 48, there's a good example of an interview article for a company newsletter. You can follow this example for Paper 4, but you don't have to do so. In fact, a less formal, more personal sort of interview article might be more interesting. In any case, please do not write this assignment in the style of the Q&A article on page 51.

Also, don't wait until the last minute to do this assignment. As I mentioned in class, this assignment involves another person (a stranger or a near-stranger), and you can never know how reliable that person is. Give yourself time to recover if something goes wrong.

Writing for the Future: For 2/24

I hope you found last week's speaker interesting. I did. I'll be interested to know what you got out of her talk.

This week we'll starting to work on the fine art of interviewing. Please remember to read pages 47-62 in your text.

We will also be workshopping your papers about the Cornell Museum. I'm looking forward to reading those.

Since we are about halfway through the semester, I'd like to get some feedback about this class: things we should emphasize, things you need to go over again, etc. Be prepared with questions and comments. (We'll keep those anonymous.)

Writing for the Future: For 2/17

1) Our guest this week will be Jennifer DeWitt, an expert in using social media for work-related projects. Be prepared to ask any questions you may have on this or a related topic. She's also interested in hearing your comments.

2) Your third paper -- the one about the Cornell Museum -- is due by class time on 2/17. We'll have time to do a little workshopping of these papers.

3) In the coming weeks we'll be working to improve your skills as interviewers. The next time you see an interview on television, try to figure out why you like it or do not like it.

Writing for the Future: For 2/10

Reminder for 2/10/15:

We will all meet at 4 p.m. at the Cornell Museum on campus. At that time, you will receive your assignment for Paper 3. We'll spend 45 minutes to an hour at the museum. After that, we'll begin the more formal part of the class in our usual classroom at 5 p.m.

Bring a pencil with you to take notes. The museum may not allow the use of pens. Please allow yourself plenty of time to park your car and get to the museum by 4 p.m.

Here is a link to a map of the campus, which you can copy and paste into your browser:

http://www.myatlascms.com/map/index.php?id=65#!ct/3744,824,865,866,852,864,868,5148,5141,3745,4399,7309,4400,4396