Assessment Task No 2: Class Exercises & Portfolio
Weighting: 50% of total mark
Marked out of 100
Description: In class tasks including story plans, interviews, story drafts, editing.
Assessment Criteria: You must show that you are developing news sense and news writing skills.
Due Date: In tutorials, weekly – tasks must be completed in class and when assigned, revised at home. Selected tasks will be earmarked for feedback and handed into the tutor.
Feedback: These will be returned with comments but no formal mark. Students should use these comments to improve their work.
Final Assessment: At the end of the semester each student must hand in a portfolio of five news story exercises that they have completed in class. Students should revise their initial drafts before handing in as part of this final folio. At the end of each story students should include one example of a change they have made and explain briefly why they made the change.
Example:
Original draft: Brokeback Mountain did not go away without an Oscar; it won three Oscars on the night including the Best Director Oscar.
Revision:Brokeback Mountain did not go away empty handed. It took home three Oscars including the prize for Best Director.
Comment: Removed the repetition of “Oscar”; tightened structure into two short sentences and italicized title of film.
The chosen example may be a sentence or paragraph. Associated comments should be brief but detailed enough to indicate that you have consciously engaged in a revision process.
Must attempt: yes
