E-Portfolio Final Blog Post, Megan Perras

A DOZEN THINGS I HAVE LEARNED IN PROOFREADING AND COPYEDITING:

(written in point form)

1. At first it is really difficult to put your work on a public forum when you are getting graded for it, but constructive criticism from your peers actually does make you a better writer.

2. How to create smaller links, and how to formulate a web story so that people will actually want to read it.

3. The importance of imagery and video as well as giving credit to internet sources on blog posts.

4. To read your work over and edit it more than once, because once something is published on the internet, everyone can see your mistakes. (And if they’re Proofreading and Copyediting students, they will correct it for you too.)

5. Future journalists create really interesting blogs.

6. That I write way too much volume for anyone to actually want to read the whole blog post.

7. That the internet isn’t infallible, so writing midterms on it generates extra stress.

8. The journalism debate on new media will most likely work itself out, regardless of my personal opinions on twitter, and whoever figures out a way to create tons of revenue off news on the internet will be very wealthy and may be hiring journalists sometime in the future.

9. Journalistic ethics are pivotal when writing for the internet, even though others may release more information, at least credibility will give you an edge to fight against that and retain readership.

10. I learnt that it is a really bad idea to put your full name on a blog entry in which you put a picture of a horse pooping as the main image because when someone google- image- searches your name, the first image they will see is that horse pooping.

11. I realise that although the internet is an extremely useful tool, I will most likely NOT want to write for it as a career, as at times I find myself slightly technologically challenged.

12. As a journalist, I love writing, but editing seems like too much of a "desk job" for me!

Here is a helpful and interesting read on editing:

http://www.copydesk.org/words/

Image From: http://www.softwaremag.com/archive/2002-02/images/E-Learning.jpeg

Here are the links to all of the 5 comments necessary for the e-portfolio project:

http://prow135journalists.blogspot.com/2010/04/devon-bowies-e-portfolio-marijuwhat.html?showComment=1271163771308#comment-c3530053541451150319

http://prow135journalists.blogspot.com/2010/04/journalists-are-not-robots-e-portfolio.html?showComment=1271161161445#comment-c2168533504201055956

http://prow135journalists.blogspot.com/2010/04/staying-connected-with-social-media.html?showComment=1271160618924#comment-c5582118984668479175

http://prow135journalists.blogspot.com/2010/04/no-more-hunter-s-thompsons-jayme-hagen.html?showComment=1271147183513#comment-c2633519669640951350

http://prow135journalists.blogspot.com/2010/04/bring-on-change-shannon-findlay.html