The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

COMM 207: Assignment for Thursday, Sept. 24

1. read “Every Newspaper Journalist Should Start a Blog” at http://publishing2.com/2007/05/22/every-newspaper-journalist-should-start-a-blog/ by Scott Karp

Post at least 2 grafs to your blog answering this question: “You are a journalism student/or a mass comm major or minor. How does Scott Karp’s advice apply to you? How can you use a blog at this stage of your career to learn the profession and further your own career prospects?”

2. Post a second blog entry quoting at least one (1) entry in the AP Stylebook that you think will be important to you and explain its importance in at least a 2- or 3-sentence graf.
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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.