Thursday class — Here is your discussion forum

Here is the discussion forum for our Thursday night class. Click here to go to the forum. Please be sure to bookmark the web address once you reach the webpage. The actual address is this: http://mediaenglishthursday.proboards.com/index.cgi . Once you reach the home page, you will need to register.  Just look for the words and click [...]

Well Done, Everyone; Now Keep Writing

Our course may be through officially, but I hope your interest in writing is blooming like a hundred fields of flowers. Feel free to continue posting links along with your thoughtful ideas in this space. We’ll keep this blog alive (as long as WordPress allows it) so you can use it as a place to [...]

Example for Today’s Blog Assignment

Let’s Look at Some Digitally Driven News Sites Today’s task is to post links to online news sites and to analyze those sites for their digital characteristics. How are they different from news sites? Let’s take a tour. Notice I’m still writing in short paragraphs. What’s true for print readers is more true for online [...]

Blog Design Change

Am sure you’ve noticed that our otherwise new blog now looks newer. I opted to switch designs because the previous format did not show the names of the authors of the posts. We need names. WordPress offers a few dozen templates. This one better serves our needs. The photo is from graduation day. I figured [...]

Really Writing for an Audience

Here is a reason to take our blog seriously: My course blog for the International Communications course this spring drew 10,235 page views. In one day alone — April 15 — we had 1,319 hits. Clearly, we reached many people outside of class. Last fall, our Media Writing blog reached 7,981 page views. This was [...]

This Blog is for You

Media people of all kinds regularly write for an audience. This blog gives us the chance to share our writing with each other — and with anyone else who happens to read this. We will post items regularly.  You’ll be kind of famous, at least here. And you’ll become a better writer. Let’s get started. [...]