Monday, February 28, 2011

Extra Credit -- Getting Published

Glad to see one of youze is now a published journalist. Congrats!

Now, you may wonder what sort of extra credit you can get for getting an out-of-class story published by a recognized media source.

FOR GETTING AN OUT-OF-CLASS STORY PUBLISHED, I will replace your lowest test story grade as long as the published story grade is higher. If not, then I will replace your TWO lowest-scoring practice story grades with 4.0s.

For me to count your extra credit, you need to submit to me via email a link to your work, along with a request to have it applied to extra credit.

There will be other extra credit opportunities as the semester progresses. THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IN ALL EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENTS is that you are demonstrating to me that you can now correctly apply skills learned in this class that at one time you did not apply as well; that you went above and beyond what we are learning in this class to further educate yourself in journalism; and/or you are demonstrating ability learned on your own prior to this class but applicable here. You can expect any ad hoc extra credit beyond the assignments listed here to include at least one of those components.

I don't care if you messed up earlier; show me you can get it right now and I'm happy to replace earlier grades with something more accurately reflecting where you are at NOW.

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