The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

COMM 209: In-class assignment

  • Write a story on my presentation -- how a well-crafted news story is like a cheap necklace or a shish-kebab.


    500-750 words -- i.e. 2-3 pages double spaced -- due at the end of class today

    at least three (3) quotes

    in the body of the story, you'll want a graf or two of bio -- you can find details on my resume at http://www.sci.edu/faculty/ellertsen/resume.html

    organize it inverted pyramid style or in the Newsweek educational handout style with an anecdotal lede (story), nut graf or billboard, body and "kicker" at the end
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.