• Knowledge of the history of feature articles.
• Ability to distinguish between news and feature article writing.
• Practice in writing feature articles.

• Demonstrate an ability to write in a variety of journalistic styles, including news writing, feature writing, editorial writing, and writing for print and broadcast.
• Write a basic news story for print and broadcast.
• Demonstrate an ability to edit and revise your own or another's writing.
• Generate a summary lead.
• Generate effective interview questions and then integrate and attribute source material after conducting the interview.
• Demonstrate an ability to write in the journalistic style, using concise language.
• Demonstrate an understanding of legal and ethical principles that guide responsible media coverage.

• Write emails, short reports, memoranda, job descriptions, and various types of letters including employment recommendation letters, acknowledgement and appreciation letters, letters of acceptance, customer order acknowledgements, letters requesting information as well as action letters granting claims and making adjustments by providing examples of each.
• Demonstrate appropriate style and tone for the intended audience for each type of writing with a writing sample.
• Demonstrate formal and informal writing illustrating appropriate tone and level of information for the situation and the audience with an example of each.
• Create and format basic documents and letters used in business/office settings. Provide examples.
• Illustrate a clear writing style for various types of letters and short reports with several examples.
• Demonstrate organizational skills used in writing day-to-day business documents with an outline and the final written product.
• Summarize how to prioritize writing tasks in an office setting.

• Demonstrate the reporting, writing and publication of feature articles for newspapers and magazines
• Analyze the technique of respected non-fiction writers
• Critique how to determine the appropriate publication venue

Course Description
Nonfiction writing for today's periodical. Students learn how to analyze market needs, develop ideas suitable for publication, prepare manuscripts and market what has been written.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Demonstrate competency in identifying strategies for finding lucrative markets and identify reasons for choices
• Discuss these strategies and how they impact your ability to create successful queues
• Make a plan for manifesting your strategies and ability to build Freelance Writing portfolio
• Discuss the process of generating ideas and topics
• Articulate and illustrate your knowledge of writing rules
• Provide evidence of clear writing
• Discuss and provide evidence of your knowledge of rules of grammar, punctuation and usage
• Articulate your understanding of the learning process as a freelance writer
• Illustrate your understanding of modes of writing
• Illustrate your understanding of general purpose, form and content in writing
• Provide evidence of your knowledge of resources and tools

• Demonstrate persuasive writing used in a business proposal with an example.
• Demonstrate the tact and sensitivity needed for writing evaluations, letters of resignation, and letters of termination with examples.
• Illustrate how to explain technical jargon in clear, plain English with an example of a jargon-filled document and a revised version.
• Construct a well-researched report/proposal with a recommended action based on research.
• Demonstrate a polished writing style in a final product, such as a business proposal or report, utilizing the MLA style and the appropriate tone for its intended audience.
• Describe time management and decision-making skills used to prioritize and organize office writing tasks.
• Illustrate writing used in business reports and manuals demonstrating a clear sense of subject, audience, and purpose with an example of a report or manual.
• Illustrate writing that describes a process and/or procedures in a document such as a manual
• All examples should be written by the student.

• Compare several different types of public relations writing with regard to writing style, length, format, and target audience.
• Examine the variety of skills necessary for effective public relations writing.
• Analyze the ways in which written communication in public relations has changed as the field has developed in the United States.
• Assess the ways in which changes in technology have influenced the role of written communications in public relations.
• Discuss the roles of timing and targeting messages in public relations practice.
• Evaluate several examples of public relations writing that you have written for clarity, accuracy, fairness, appropriate style, and writing skill.
• Construct a public relations problem with a solution that incorporates at least five forms of written public relations materials.

• Develop a range of types of technical communications that exhibit specific intention and focus on carefully specified audiences;
• Create a sample document design for communication with readers in the workplace;
• Use a range of strategies for writing clear English;
• Create effective page layout and design;
• Employ visual aids to further understanding;
• Briefly describe two communication technologies with which you have experience;
• Describe an effective planning technique applicable for creating general communications projects;
• Plan effective strategies for revision;
• Produce model documents for instruction, description, definition, and summary in report form that communicate necessary information in clear, concise and technical language.

• Demonstrate familiarity with search sources including online and religious databases
• Apply research principles to assemble a family tree
• Identify and discuss strategies for overcoming issues related to research
• Demonstrate writing skills at a highly advanced level

• Principles and methodologies of argumentation. Explanation of how student will review and demonstrate these will come in an email from his or her mentor.
• Techniques and demonstration of persuasive writing.
• Literary analysis of a reading sample and submission of student's own work, which can be produced during the term.