Love, Loss and What I Wore

So fashion week was so last week.

Here's another fashion trend in pop culture you can connect with:

Love Loss and What I Wore, the play.

Adjusted Schedule for the Week

Hi Everyone -- Since we're a day behind, we'll adjust the schedule this week (Sept. 20, Sept. 22) accordingly.

On Tuesday, Sept. 20: Workshop fashion-week pieces and discuss news-link tie-ins and ways to match your story ideas to current events/trends.

On Thursday, Sept. 22: Quiz on Jacobi Chapters 1-3. We'll review your proposals for your mini-immersion pieces. Time permitting, we'll also begin to discuss Portrait of Hemingway, as well as interviewing techniques and profile-writing. (Quiz on the book next Thursday.)

Assignments/Schedule: Week 3

Tuesday: Lecture on concepts from Chapter 3 in Jacobi -- Focus, Interest
Finish workshop of how-to pieces

Thursday: Quiz on readings/concepts (Jacobi chapters 1-3). Workshop fashion week pieces. Target magazines for possible publication.

Read: Portrait of Hemingway.
Write: A proposal for your mini-immersion piece. Bring copies to share in class next Tuesday.

Assignments for Week 2

Please be sure you're already up to date with assignments. Please post responses as assigned.

Read Chapters 3 & 4 in Jacobi.

Write: Fashion week tie-in piece/guidelines per Tuesday's in-class lecture.

Prepare for a concepts and readings quiz during Week 3/Thursday.

How to Prepare for Workshop on Tuesday

Please bring hard copies of your 500-word How-To pieces to share in workshop on Tuesday. 15 copies should do it. Also please bring an e-copy of your piece to class for editing work.

Happy Labor Day weekend, everyone! (Anyone have a how-to piece on how to celebrate Labor Day?)

The Insider Wants You

The Insider, our online campus newspaper, is looking for photographers. Please e-mail Brian Estadt, the Insider advisor, at brianestadt@gmail.com if you're interested. The Insider can provide camera equipment and training, as needed.

There are openings for specialty writers of all kinds. If you'd be interested in writing a column, doing regular features on local culture, reviewing music and movies and more, please send Brian a note. Some of the pieces you'll do for our class will be a natural fit for The Insider, too.

Publishing your work in The Insider now is a great step toward building a portfolio that can help you get a job in journalism or public relations later on. It's also a great way to connect with other writers and the campus community.

Oh, and there are those 15 minutes of fame Andy Warhol always talked about.

How To Do Anything

Visit eHow for an example of how many ways there are to say "how to."