Course Main Objective
To highlight the importance of writing news in English, identify difference between the functional language and the creative language explaining the journalese and its rules and sources of journalistic news item.
To make student acquainted with forms of journalism writing in English heeding rules of such writing and conditions of its validity and the news worth that make news item valid for publishing.
Course Learning Outcomes
- 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
- 1.1 Identify steps of writing journalistic news items in English.
- 2. Skills
- 2.1 Use various information sources in drafting news in English.
- 2.2 Focus on modern technology in writing news and communicating with the difference sources of news via the web.
- 3. Values
- 3.1 Evaluate the life cycle of a news story within a teamwork.
Course Content
- Functional language (FL) & Creative Language (CL)
- Introduction to news writing
- Guidelines of News Writing
- News Editing
- Quotations in Information Language
- Punctuations
- Five Ws & H
- News Criteria
- What makes a story newsworthy?
- News Characteristics and News Sources
Textbook (s)
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Primary Sources
- Haliema Mohammed Sulieman. News Writing and Editing. Al – Motanabi Bookstore, Saudi Arabia, 2018.
- Mohammed Ayesh. Media writing skills in English. Amman, Majdalawi Book shop, 2012.
- Secondary Sources:
- Susan Pape, and Sue Featherstone. Newspaper Journalism- A practical introduction., SAGE, London, Thousand Oaks, 2005.
- On-line Sources
- Mark D.ludwig Gene Glimore. Modern News Editing. Blackwell Publishing ltd 2005
Course ID: JOUR308
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | MEDIA 305 |
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