In most cases, newspaper articles don’t sound like they were written to be included in scholarly periodicals. At least, this is my experience.
The multimodal project itself wasn’t very hard. I had an idea where I was going, all of my articles were already “written”, and I knew how to use the program that I was going to use. All of my boxes were checked. The hardest part, though, was the translation.
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My final researched argument was seven pages long. How exactly was I supposed to turn a seven-page essay into several newspaper articles, or enough to fit on one page? This is what I struggled with.
After I read through my essay one more time, I started to find general groupings of information. I found three general topics in my essay, mostly the ones that I felt were the most interesting, and I started typing.
It’s not very descriptive, I know.
While I was reading, I was trying to understand the general idea of the section and then take the information and write it again, but this time as an article.
I’ve always liked writing newspaper-like essays because the tone is more like my natural writing tone. Also, they are very to-the-point, yet they still manage to be some of the most interesting works around.
It’s fantastic.
Source: SlideShare
If I had a choice to redo this project, I probably still would create a newspaper page. First, because I understand the process and secondly because it’s a style of writing that I don’t have to force myself to conform to. It flows easily and it flows quickly. But most importantly, it flows in a tone of voice that screams, “Lindsey Maguire was here!” And after all, isn’t that what you want your writing to say?