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.

Posted by Dominick Bonny