For spring semester’s PR Writing course that I’ll be teaching online, I will be augmenting my own content and our textbook with several courses offered by Poynter’s NewsU.
Here are the ones I’m considering so far:
- The Writer’s Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use
- The Lead Lab
- The Language of the Image
- Writing for the Ear
- Five Steps to MultiMedia Storytelling
- Cleaning Your Copy
If you’ve used NewsU courses in your college classes, I’d love to hear from you.
And are there additional NewsU (or other source) courses I should consider? I’m really hoping to find a good course on using AP Style, specifically.
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I just did a quick look through some of these courses Barb and they look really interesting.
I’m not a PR prof, but rather a (very) recent PR grad and I may have to take some of these courses now that I know about them.
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NewsU’s Cleaning Your Copy has a great section on AP Style and a quiz at the end.
We also have a couple of writing Webinars that you can show to your class or you can require them like “lab” work.
Best of luck with the class.
Howard
NewsU Crew
Howard: Thanks! I’ll move the Cleaning Your Copy course earlier in the semester closer to when I discuss AP Style with the class.
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