Course Language:
English
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Course Objectives:
With this course, the student will gain competencies to collect and write news according to the technique.
Course Content:
Intensive exposure to some of the basic writing formats in communications: news releases, letters, features, and profiles, lead writing, editing, and techniques of interviewing, extensive writing and rewriting, develop basic writing skills for various audiences will be discussed.
Course Methodology:
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Course Evaluation Methods:
A: Testing, B: Experiment C: Homework
Vertical Tabs
Course Learning Outcomes
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Learning Outcomes |
Program Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
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1. He/She defines basic information and
skills about news gathering and disseminating techniques |
2, 4 |
1,2,3 |
A,C |
| 2. He/She expresses how the media considers actual matters | 2,4 | 1,2,3 | A,C |
| 3. He/She prepares news with the information gathered | 2,3 | 1,2,3 | A,C |
| 4. He/She applies news gathering and writing techniques for different media texts | 2, 4, 6 | 1,2,3 | A,C |
| 5. He/She practices his/her writing and expressing skills for news in different channels | 2,6 |
1,2,3 |
A,C |
Course Flow
| COURSE CONTENT | ||
| Week | Topics | Study Materials |
| 1 | News and Definitions of News | |
| 2 | News Value and Discussion the Examples | |
| 3 | News Writing Rules (Upper-case letter, using verbs, abbreviations, number uses) | |
| 4 | News sources (primary and – secondary and others) | |
| 5 | Elements of News: Headline, subheadline, billboard, spot, entry, paragraph | |
| 6 | News Style: Words, consept, sentence | |
| 7 | Midterm | |
| 8 | 5W1H Rules and Implamantation of news | |
| 9 | News transmission routes: direcylt- indirectly | |
| 10 | Inverted pyramid technique and news practise | |
| 11 | Pyramid technique and news practise | |
| 12 | Square- rectangle techniques and news practise | |
| 13 | Daily speech and news practise | |
| 14 | News confirmation and revaluation | |
| 15 | Evaluation | |
| 16 | FINAL EXAM | |
Recommended Sources
| RECOMMENDED SOURCES | |
| Textbook |
Inside Reporting: A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism, Tim Harrower, Mc Graw Hill.2007.
News Gathering and News Writing. Robert M. News. Kessinger Publishing. 2007. Haber Yazma Teknikleri- Prof. Dr. Atilla Girgin İngilizce-Türkçe Haber Çeviri Teknikleri- Aynur Özgür |
| Additional Resources |
http://eogrenme.anadolu.edu.tr/eKitap/mei201u.pdf
Büyük Yazım Kılavuzu- Nijat Özön |
Material Sharing
| MATERIAL SHARING | |
| Documents | |
| Assignments | |
| Exams | |
Assessment
| ASSESSMENT | ||
| IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 50 |
| Quizzes | 2 | 20 |
| Assignment | 4 | 30 |
| Total | 100 | |
|
Contrıbutıon Of Fınal Examınatıon To Overall
Grade |
40 | |
| Contrıbutıon Of In-Term Studıes To Overall Grade | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Course’s Contribution to Program
| COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM | |||||||
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | He/She defines the profession of journalism with its historical, legal, political, economic, cultural, sociological, and moral dimensions. He/She establishes the connection between media ,society and power and states significance of the journalism in contemporary societies | ||||||
| 2 | He/She defines news of different types required by the profession of journalism. He/She prepares texts for publication in printed and visual media which the news by using technical and theoritical discipline he/she gained in the discipline of media | X | |||||
| 3 | He/She gains kowledge about interdisciplinary issues. | X | |||||
| 4 | He/She defines freedom of communicaiton and expression of the media within the principles of the communicaiton ethics. He/She uses the news to be published in the media in accordance with these basics. | X | |||||
| 5 | He/She discusses new concepts and approaches in the media. He/She interprets these concepts by linking with the profession of journalism at national and international dimensions. | ||||||
| 6 |
He/She associates new communication technologies in mass communication with journalism practice and he/she prepares appropriate content for digital media.
|
X | |||||
| 7 | He/She underlines transformation of the media industry and changing dynamics in globalization process. | ||||||
| 8 | He/She comments on the images taking place in the media personally, technically, critically, ethically and culturally. In the light of this information, he/she selects the images to be used in the media by recognizing power of the image. | ||||||
| 9 | He/She defines principles and theories of Communication Science. | ||||||
| 10 | He/She comments on historical development process of the media and he /she explains the ethics of press movements on historical events and facts. | ||||||
ECTS
| ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION | |||
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Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total
Workload (Hour) |
| Course Duration | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 10 | 8 | 112 |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Quiz | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Homework | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Final examination | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Total Work Load | 164 | ||
| Total Work Load / 25 (h) | 6,56 | ||
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 7 | ||
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