There are many different writing styles found in any day's newspaper. As a result, you have the opportunity to interact with and learn about a variety of writing styles.
Reacting in writing to what you read in the newspaper is a rewarding way to interact with the interesting material. You may want to write in a response journal after working with interesting news stories.
Choose a newspaper story that interests you.
- Read the story silently.
- Write in a response journal reflecting on the story.
- Found poems:
- Another great writing activity is "found poetry." In this activity, you will take words or phrases from a newspaper story and arrange them into a poem.
- Skim an article and collect interesting words and phrases that you think will work well in a poem. After assembling your word list, write a poem using those words.
- Compare and contrast the difference in writing styles in a news story, a feature column and an editorial. Choose one and mimic it in a writing assignment.
