Practical: Content Writing and Newspaper Designing

Paper Code: 
JMC 125
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Understand the basics of hard and soft news writing.
  2. Understand the making of dummy, aesthetics of designing and printing.
  3. Understand the usage and various features of print design and editing softwares.

 

Course Outcome(COs):

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

JMC

125

Practical: Writing &Designing

CO20:Students will have knowledge about the basics of hard and soft news writing.

CO21:Students will be able to understand different writing techniques.

CO21:Students will have the knowledge of non-newsy stories.

CO22:Students will be able to understand about the dummy, printing and layout.

CO23:Students will be able to develop the knowledge of aesthetics of designing.

CO24:Students will learn the usage of various softwares used for designing of newspaper.

 

Approach in teaching:

Lecture cum Discussion

Tool(Power Point Presentation)

Analyzing different newspaper reports

Case study methodology can be applied.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Analyzing different newspaper reports

Engage students in writing in news format

Analyzing different non-newsy stories in different mediums

Analyzing the aesthetics of different newspapers’ design and layout.

Analyzing the aesthetics of different newspapers, web-portals

Hands-on training of softwares like coral draw, quarkxpress

Class test,

Continuous Assessment Test

Semester end examination

Assignments

 

 

10.00
Unit I: 
I

Writing Hard News Stories, writing reports for Conferences, Deliberations, Concerts

10.00
Unit II: 
II

Writing Soft/ Human angle News Stories

 

12.00
Unit III: 
III

Writing Reviews-Book, Film, Theatre, Arts,Music, Literature

 

13.00
Unit IV: 
IV

Writing Editorials andArticles and Features for Newspapers and Magazines 

 

15.00
Unit V: 
V

Designing a Broadsheet Newspaper using Quark Express and Adobe InDesign

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Abraham, Raimole. (2010). Journalists and Environment News. New Delhi.Kanishka Publishers and Distributers.
  • Ahmad, Shahzad. (2005). Journalism: News Coverage. New Delhi.Anmol Publications.
  • DeJarld, T. and Anton, Kelly K. (2019). Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book. CA. Adobe Press.
  • Kundra, S. (2005).Reporting Methods. New Delhi.AnmolPublications.
  • Nelson, Jay J. (2016). Quark Xpress for Dummies. USA. Dummies.
  • Parthasarathy, Rangaswami. (2014).Here is the News!Reporting for the Media. New Delhi. Sterling Publishers.           

 

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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