Brianna Kwasny - Challenges

Journalistic writing and academic writing differ greatly. I have written academically since my schooling began, and therefore it comes naturally to me now (AP style and all), but journalism presents new guidelines to learn.

This class is the firth time I have learned about and had to practice writing journalistically. In journalism writing, paragraphs are only one to three sentences long. If someone wrote a paragraph that length in academic writing, their writing may not even be accepted.

Also, there is no conclusion used in journalistic writing. The journalist's goal is to write as concise as possible, which completely opposes the long, elegant writing expected in academics.