Welcome to cmat 240 online!Professor Jennifer Cox

Summer II 2012

July 9-Aug. 3

About me

• Professor Jennifer Cox

• Just finished my first year at SU

• Finishing my Ph.D. from UF

• Several years as newspaper journalist throughout Florida

• Worked on various multimedia projects in Alabama and The Washington Post

The course

The course

• Working knowledge of principles and practices shaping the journalism and public relations fields today

• Be able to write clearly and concisely, using AP Style and appropriate grammar.

• Understand and have practiced good reporting techniques

• Understand strong relationship between journalism and public relations

communicating

• No in-class meetings

• Online lectures Monday-Thursday; Friday workday

• Lectures will be posted on our course website: http://cmat240summer.wordpress.com/

• I am available via email, Facetime, Skype, and phone

• I will reply within 24 hours of your email (by 3 p.m. Monday if emailed during the weekend)

Class blog

Course materials

• Writing & Reporting News: A Coaching Method (Carole Rich)• Different from the book previously used in this course• Chapters listed are according to the 7th edition;

Pay attention to chapter titles rather than numbers!

• Buy used on Amazon – new books are quite pricey

• The Associated Press Stylebook• You will need this for weekly style quizzes• You will use it in many of your upper-level courses later

expectations

• View/listen to a lecture Monday-Thursday

• Homework/projects due at 5 p.m. on assigned day• Work turned if after 5 p.m. will receive a 5-point

deduction• After midnight – 10-point deduction for each day

late

• Communicate with me before you fall too far behind; I can’t help you after the fact

• Keep up with the readings

grading

• Homework grades emailed; quiz grades in MyClasses

• Projects: 250 points each• Reported news story• Media kit

• Homework: 100 points each

grading

CONTENT

MECHANICS

TOTAL

grading

• Based on rubric

• Varies with each assignment

• Includes:• Writing Style• Organization of Information• Clarity• Thoughtfulness• Appropriateness

CONTENT

grading

• -2 = grammar & punctuation errors

• -2 = AP style errors

• -2 = spelling errors (including typos)

• -10 = factual error

• ZERO = using friends or family as sources

DO NOT PANIC! One or two bad grades will not sink you!

MECHANICS

Grading

• Homework grades emailed; quiz grades in MyClasses

• Projects: 250 points each• Reported news story• Media kit

• Homework: 100 points each

• Quizzes: 50 points each (by 9 p.m. on quiz days)• Tuesdays: AP Style• Thursdays: Readings & The Daily Times

(DelmarvaNow.com)

Daily Times emails

Daily times emails

Grading

• Homework grades emailed; quiz grades in MyClasses

• Projects: 250 points each• Reported news story• Media kit

• Homework: 100 points each

• Quizzes: 50 points each (by 9 p.m. on quiz days)• Tuesdays: AP Style• Thursdays: Readings & The Daily Times

(DelmarvaNow.com)

• Participation: 75 points per week

Grading breakdown

Point Totals

 

Projects 500 points

Homework 600 points

Quizzes 400 points

Participation 300 points

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TOTAL: 1,800 points

Last bits

• Tentative schedule in the syllabus & online

• Tune in for first lecture on Monday, July 9

• Email me at jbcox@salisbury.edu

Good luck!