Carl Cockrill- Challenges

The first thing that comes to mind is all the rules associated with journalistic writing. Writing one to three sentence paragraphs is not that difficult a concept, but for beginning journalists, it can pose a problem. Setting quotations in a paragraph by themselves is also a little tricky. Journalistic writing is more direct and to the point; whereas, academic writing does not pose these problems near as much. All writing has to have some form of accountability, but journalistic writing is more demanding, and therefore, more accountability and integrity. In academic writing, the first paragraph is used to introduce topics of discussion in the paper with a conclusion at the end to tie everything together. In journalistic writing, there are no conclusions and everything we have done up to this point has been in the form of the inverted pyramid.