A summer reading list, of sorts
April 27, 2008 | 10:46 pm
It looks like I’ll be teaching two sections of the Journalistic Essay at Bridgewater State next fall (which is very exciting for me). I’m totally revamping my syllabus and putting together a new reading list.
If you’re interested in seeing what I’ll be teaching (it’s a work in progress) you can take a look here. And please use the comments to let me know if you have any recommendations; I’m typically looking for feature-length nonfiction articles of 3,000-10,000 words written in a narrative style.
(And yes, I realize I wrote one of the articles on the list — I typically teach something I wrote so I can tell the students how each bit of information was reported, and let them know what I would have done differently).
As a reminder, you can see some of the work my students did last Fall at this site. I plan to make more use of that site next year, so add it to your RSS feed if you’re interested.
Tags: Writing, Journalism, Teaching
stathis is one bad mutha wrote:
April 30, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I’ve always thought this was one of the best newspaper articles (is that a journalistic essay?) that I’ve ever read. “Richard Nixon’s Long Journey Ends” by David Von Drehle. It took me a while to find it because I read it a LONG TIME AGO. Anywho, it stuck with me. Enjoy.
stathis is one bad mutha wrote:
April 30, 2008 at 1:05 pm
too busy giving my 2 cents to add the link…here it is.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A99301-1994Apr28.html