University of GujratFaculty of Mass Comm. & Media

Title Journalistic WritingCode MCM- 201

Credit hours 3

Week Lectures Topics Source 1 1 An Introduction to language Skill.

Study of language consists of four major skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

2Writing Skill: It’s Definition.

2 3 Deference between Spoken and Written language.

4 Conventions of Writing.3 5 Purpose of Writing.

6 Problems in Writing.

4 7 Process of Writing:(i) Pre—Writing (ii) Writing (iii) Post--Writing

8 What is a good Writing?

5 9 Basic Techniques.

10 Writing For Mass Media.(i) Subject (ii) Purpose (iii) Evidence

6 11 Basic Tools for Writing.

Grammar, mechanics in grammar, What is paragraph. 12

7 13 Different forms of Journalistic Writing.1)News writing2)Editorial3)Feature writing4)Column writing5)Review writing6)Inter view writing WRITING FOR PRINT JOURNALISTICS STYLE

14 Pre—Requisites of Journalistic Writing. And Difference between Journalistic writing and other form f writing.

8 15 Essay writing, Précis.

16 News, Elements, Types, Gathering, News Making---

9 17 Reporting skill.a)Observationb)Looking for Storiesc)Back ground research

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10 18 High Frequency news Stories. Characteristics of a good news Story Writer.

(Here we Present some example of a news stories.)19 The Writer and the Law

11 20 Ethics and Journalism.

Revision for final term

Revision for final term

*Note: These are basic guidelines advance topics can be taught according to the requirement of students.

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