LT241-5-FY-CO:
Feature Writing and Magazine Project for Print and Online (Single honours)
2023/24
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 28 June 2024
30
18 March 2022
Requisites for this module
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BA P500 Multimedia Journalism,
BA P501 Multimedia Journalism (Including Year Abroad),
BA P503 Multimedia Journalism (Including Placement Year)
In this module you will learn, through practical experience, how to write features, how to edit and adapt news stories and features for print and online and how to produce print and online publications.
Building on the core reporting and production skills you have developed in your first year, you will learn more about the relationship between news and features and the particular demands and characteristics of the different media platforms, with the first term concentrating on feature-writing and print production and the second largely taken up with a print and online magazine production project.
This module runs alongside, and is complementary to, the LT231/LT240 Intermediate Practical Journalism - Audio/Video module: you will be expected to adapt broadcast stories as print and online features and vice versa – and you will expected to provide audio and video material for the magazine project.
Students who have not had the opportunity to take initial work experience in their first year will be offered an industry work placement during the Autumn term.
The aim of this module is to help you make the transition from being a good reporter with basic online production skills into becoming a fully-fledged multi-skilled print and online journalist, able to operate effectively in a number of different news and features formats, and with a clear understanding of the distinctive nature of each and its implications for the way you work.
At the end of this module you will:
1. have learned how to plan, research, write and present features in a variety of formats across a range of media.
2. be confidently producing a range of content, written and visual, by yourself and in teams, in print and online
3. be producing, in collaboration with your peers, relevant, varied, interesting and well-illustrated print/web news and features content which will be publicly available. The class will have an active presence on social media.
4. have developed your skills in interviewing, research, and feature-writing
5. be familiar with the wider production processes of news and features, such as planning, newsgathering, features research, newspaper/magazine flatplans and online publication schedules and sitemaps.
6. have learned how to write shorthand, and been helped to achieve speeds of 100 words per minute.
No additional information available.
Anticipated teaching delivery:
The teaching for this module is through practical workshop sessions (two a week in autumn and spring terms, average six hours a week). Much of spring term is devoted to group magazine projects in which you produce from scratch a dummy issue of a magazine, to be submitted by beginning of summer term. Shorthand teaching continues throughout the academic year.
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Randall, D. (2016)
The Universal Journalist. 5th edn. London, UK: Pluto Press. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1bh4b0w.
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Wynford Hicks (2013)
English for journalists. Twentieth Anniversary edition. Abingdon: Routledge. Available at:
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203750933.
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Hicks, W.
et al. (2016)
Writing for Journalists. 3rd edn. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315679440.
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Holmes, T. (2015)
Subediting and Production for Journalists: Print, Digital, Social. 2nd edn. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203143544.
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Smith, J. and National Council for the Training of Journalists (Great Britain) (2007)
Essential reporting: the NCTJ guide for trainee journalists. 1st ed. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications. Available at:
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1099471.
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Emma Lee-Potter (2017)
Interviewing for journalists. Third edition. New York, NY: Routledge. Available at:
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1526989.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Features and Production Portfolio |
|
80% |
| Coursework |
Reflective commentary of magazine project |
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20% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Mr Paul Anderson, email: paul.anderson@essex.ac.uk.
Paul Anderson, Anthony Clavane
LiFTS General Office – email: liftstt@essex.ac.uk
Telephone 01206 87 2626
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Travel costs for approved work placements and live projects for this module may be covered wholly or partly at the discretion of the department. Please check with your module supervisor for details.
No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
Of 150 hours, 37 (24.7%) hours available to students:
112 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
1 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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