How to Write Short News Items in English

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Институт медиа

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 3 модуль

Преподаватель

Дмитриев Олег Аркадьевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The objective of this course is to give students an opportunity to get acquainted with the foundations of writing multimedia texts in English. Special attention will be paid to various types of texts — lead-in, captions, titles, briefs, short TV items (voiceovers), reports, teases for TV and Internet, etc. The students of the course will also have a chanсe to get acquainted with the way the texts are manifested in various multimedia outlets all over the world. During the course the students will also meet jounalists who use Enlish in their everyday work. That will enlarge their scope of knowledge about the profession of the journalist. At the end of the course the students will present final work in the from of a website page or a television report.

Learning Objectives

• Formation of multimedia writing skills in English.
• Learning the writing and editorial values for international media outlets.
• Building multimedia skills of textual and visual storytelling.
• Practicing the elements of a visual storytelling and adjusting them to the new media strategies.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Ability to adapt text for the platforms and means of media communication (texts for TV and radio).
• Ability to follow the editorial guidelines.
• Ability to produce the journalistic texts in English.
• Ability to understand and analyse journalistic text in English.

Course Contents

• Introduction.
• Standards of English language writing at the various international media outlets.
• Writing short news items for web and television.
• Writing intros and headlines for the television.
• Writing packages for television and multimedia.

Assessment Elements

• Work during seminars #1
• Work during seminars #3
• Work during seminars #4
• Work during seminars #5
• Work during seminars #6
• Final written exam
• Attendance
• Work during seminars #2

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 3rd module
  0.2 * Attendance + 0.2 * Final written exam + 0.1 * Work during seminars #1 + 0.1 * Work during seminars #2 + 0.1 * Work during seminars #3 + 0.1 * Work during seminars #4 + 0.1 * Work during seminars #5 + 0.1 * Work during seminars #6

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Boyer, D. (2013). The Life Informatic : Newsmaking in the Digital Era. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=671369
• Veglis, A., & Siapera, E. (2012). The Handbook of Global Online Journalism. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=465413

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Boczkowski, P. J. (2010). News at Work : Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=336762
• Cook, V. J. (2004). The English Writing System. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=327739

Authors

• Абрамов Роман Сергеевич
• DMITRIEV OLEG ARKADEVICH
• Uvarov Fedor Maksimovich