So, here we are.
Get your own blog set up, check in here for the rest of the class's sites, update your blogroll. Put up a picture, set up an RSS feed and put up any other bells and whistles you care to. Just make sure to keep it professional! Your blog will be your living portfolio--something you'll be able to use in job interviews. So, don't put up images, content or use language that might work against you.
Here's your assignment for Tuesday:
Read:
AP stylebook, A through C
Rich, chapters 7 (leads and nut graphs) and 8 (story structure)
Do:
Watch the first presidential debate Friday night at 9 p.m. and think about how you would lede a story about it. Write a one-sentence lede and post it on your blog by midnight. (If the debate doesn't happen, then you're off the hook for this one.) Here's some commentary from WaPo about it, fyi.
Object Description: write a physical description of an object (sitting in front of you) without using adjectives or adverbs. 200 words. Post it on your blog. Take a look at your colleagues' work before class Tuesday, and bring to class a hard copy of your own piece, written in copy format.
