Samples of Work

Reporting & Writing

I joined my school’s newspaper class as a reporter. It has been the foundation for everything I have done journalistically. I have continued to report on many stories since my sophomore year and I have expanded into writing opinion and review pieces. Being a reporter has made me improve my grammar, writing (not just journalistically) and ability to research. I have applied these skills outside of the newsroom and have seen personal growth as a student in other aspects of school.

This story shows my ability to write an opinion piece. I stated my opinion clearly in the lead in the first paragraph, so my audience immediately knew what direction I was going with in this story. In the body of the story, I use quote-tranistion-quote format well and used facts and information from a police officer to back up my opinion. I also made sure to mention an opposing viewpoint, but refuted it. I overall think that this is a well-structured opinion piece.

Here, I worked on identifying the challenge in my writing, and this story displays that. To make a more emotional story, I identified the challenges of the ballet school losing six people and the hardships of being a smaller dance studio. I also included information on how the people in this story overcame these challenges. By putting this in, the readers are left satisfied knowing that there is a solution to the problems. Overall, identifying a challenge helped this piece of writing stay on the angle and made it easy to read.

This piece is a different approach to journalistic writing for me. Although I have written opinion pieces, this is my first review. I had gotten this published in KC Studio Magazine through my internship. It is centered on my opinion and experience seeing the show; however, I still included background information on KCB’s history of performing the show and Swan Lake’s history. I also included the future of this season for KCB. These outside details are still important so that the reader can better make sense of the review. Other than that, I feel that it is well-written, since my use of verbs makes the reader feel like they are watching the movement that is happening on stage through the words on the page.

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Editing

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What stands out about this design is its uniqueness. In our paper, we don’t typically use a black background with white text, but instead a white background with black text. I experimented with the black background to make an eye-catching design for this issue. This differentiation is good for our paper, the readers can see a variety of designs throughout the paper and the issues. It is more interesting than the designs that look almost the same.

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Other Samples of Work

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Leadership

Leadership & Team Building

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Law & Ethics

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News Literacy

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Marketing & Audience

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Commitment to Diversity

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