à la carte workshops Top 10 Writing Tips
About the workshop
By mastering a few basic techniques, you can transform your writing – whether it’s writing a news story, a yearbook feature or social media content. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll practice some these valuable writing tips, which include how to use strong verbs; how to be more concise; how to show rather than tell; and how to get the most out of the revising process.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the different styles of writing and what they’re used for
- To examine how many different impacts a story and writing can have
- To learn how to improve your own writing for various mediums
Faculty Lead: Michelle Carr Hassler
Michelle Carr Hassler is passionate about teaching students how to think big and in new ways by helping them take advantage of all that digital journalism has to offer.
Hassler teaches multimedia journalism courses, including the capstone course in which students publish stories in NewsNetNebraska, the college's news website. She also created and taught the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s first social media course for journalism majors.
Before coming to University of Nebraska–Lincoln, she was a newspaper reporter and editor for 16 years, beginning as an education reporter at the Tempe Daily News and Mesa Tribune. She also served as state editor at the Lincoln Journal and night city editor and interim editorial page editor at the Lincoln Journal Star.
She received a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's in English, both from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
If the faculty lead is not available to teach a workshop, another qualified faculty member will be arranged.
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