Kayla Docto - Journalistic Writing

Journalistic writing is vastly different than academic writing. Throughout high school and even my freshman year of college, I was taught how to write lengthy, detailed, essays or stories, but Writing for Mass Media completely changed the rules I had learned. I now have to write the least amount possible, instead of a thesis at the beginning, a formulated lead that describes everything in less than 30 words, and no hint of opinion. I am an opinionated person. It’s difficult to change when it goes against what I’ve been taught previously, but these tasks are not unachievable, just very different.