• Author Kathryn Kysar can be found most days of the week handing out advice and critiques to her creative writing students at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Coon Rapids.
• According to Joseph Schoen, a professor at Anoka-Ramsey Community college (ARCC), the concepts of economics can be important tools in understanding many of life's every-day issues, causes and solutions.
• 31-year-old Melissa Nanti of Carmel Court in Shoreview, Minn. is a single mother, a hospice nurse, and a college student.
• Growing up as a small-town girl, Wendy Wild experienced intense teasing and harassment by her peers as the result of being the daughter of the school principal. The immense pain and hurt that deeply affected her during her adolescent years fueled her passion to purse a life-long career in social work and education.
• There is nothing in the world that is more precious to Sarah Bach-Bergs than her family. With the holiday season approaching she found herself pondering the importance of family and time-honored traditions.
• Being a straight A student often takes commitment, determination, and drive. For Miranda Baldwin, a student attending Anoka-Ramsey Community College, it means that and much more after overcoming poverty and near homelessness.
• Allan Geoffrey Hodak has been a great mentor to many of his students and faculty that he has influenced with his many years in education.
• Every year more college students are looking to start their venture at a community college. It is becoming more common after finishing two years at a community college for those to transfer and further their education at a four-year school.
• Stephen Peter is a man who has done many different things throughout his life and whether it is teaching various political based classes or the trails of his life, it has shaped his views and has helped mold him into a man who has seen not only local but international acclaim for his work.
WATCH OUT FOR...
• Unattributed opinion
It’s fine to include opinion in your feature stories, but it can’t be your opinion. It needs to be the opinion of people who know the subject, or of the subject him/herself.
HE SAID, SHE SAID
Many of you are attributing quotes incorrectly. In a news story, you need to always attach the “he said” directly to the quote via a comma. It isn’t enough to merely put quotation marks around a sentence. That tells the reader someone said something, but doesn’t say who.
DON’T
Pantley intends to pursue a degree in journalism, “I love to write.”
DO
Pantley intends to pursue a degree in journalism, “I love to write,” she said.
DON’T
Pantley intends to pursue a degree in journalism. “I love to write.”
DO
Pantley intends to pursue a degree in journalism, “I love to write,” she said.
GENERAL NOTES:
• Don’t use courtesy titles like Mr., Mrs. and Ms. in news stories (unless you work for the Wall Street Journal!).
• Don’t use first or second person in a news story (no I or you). Stick with third person.
• Rememer to double space your stories. In college, you’ll want to be in the habit of double spacing all of your stories, and to also include your name and the assignment information on each one. Just as employers in the real world require specific protocol, so do college instructors. It’s good to get in the habit of this now.
