All week, while edit­ing at The Daily Ever­green, I see things that grind my gears.

I write these things down.

That way, I can tell every­one dur­ing our Sun­day meet­ings what they did to incur my edi­to­r­ial wrath.

Because the Edward R. Mur­row Col­lege of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion at Wash­ing­ton State Uni­ver­sity is so good at what it does many of the stu­dents don’t get proper writ­ing instruc­tion until halfway through sopho­more or the begin­ning of their junior year. (That’s another post entirely …)

That leaves it to me, my edi­tors and an occa­sional pro­fes­sor, to come in on Sun­day after­noons and con­duct crash courses in jour­nal­ism. Some­times it’s about libel, pla­gia­rism, pro­file writ­ing, lede work­shops … You name it, they need to know it, and we’ll teach it.

This week I felt it nec­es­sary to remind peo­ple what exactly a direct quote means.

One of the things I’ve really focused on this semes­ter is giv­ing writ­ers feedback.

So often peo­ple dog on the Ever­green because our writ­ers are inex­pe­ri­enced. This is a true but unavoid­able fact at a col­lege paper. The only thing I can do is to try to pre­pare my staff as well as pos­si­ble so they can GAIN experience.

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