The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

COMM 337: Online freelance writing resource

Our assignment for today was to surf the Magazine Guidelines Database at FreelanceWriting.com and locate two potential markets for: (1) the story you're going to write for this class; or (2) a story you could write over the holidays or sometime in the future. We'll talk about what you found in class.

But I also want us to look around FreelanceWriting.com ... while I haven't been able to find an "About us" page, it looks to me like a valuable resource. In class we'll look at the directory of articles and read a couple of the stories about query letters/ linked to the articles directory.
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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.