The one thing that I learned in COMM 160 today was just refreshing my mind about simple grammatical errors. For example, the mistake of using your and you're or their, they're, and there. It was good to refresh and have to use them all in one sentence because then it makes you realize the context in which they are actually used.

4/8/14

The one thing that I learned in class today was that news stories are actually just stories but with all of the facts. There is a beginning, middle, and end to evey news story just like any other story. For example, we used fairy tales in class today and wrote full news stories about them and each one of them contained a beginning, middle, and end.

3/18/14

The one thing that I learned in class today was to be short and to the point. Using words that not many people know or can recognize easily is useless and does nothing to enhance the writing. Using simple words that cut to the chase is more useful than using big words. For example, instead of saying, "the rambunctious dog propelled himself over the barrier" you can just say, "the dog jumped over the fence" and it means the same thing but just put in simpler terms for an easy read.

2/25/14

The one thing that I learned this week in COMM 160 was all about writing leads for news stories. I learned that the lead is not like a headline and it has to be a complete sentence. I also learned that the lead needs to be interesting, informative and, most importantly, draw in the attention of readers. If the lead of a story has no potential to grab the attention of a reader then it is most likely not a good lead.

2/11/14

One thing that I learned this week in COMM 160 was how to use who or whom. I learned that if you replace who or whom with he or him you can easily tell which one to choose. For example, if you use he and the sentence makes sense then the word you are looking for is who. On the other hand, if you replace who or whom with him and the sentence makes sense then the word is whom.

2/4/14

The one thing I learned for this week was about anticedents and pronoun agreement. I learned that if these two things do not agree then it makes for a very interesting and sometimes funny sentence. Also, I learned that sentences will not make sense if the pronoun used is vague. You can correct vague pronouns by replacing it with a noun, adding a noun after this, adding a noun before which or combining the statements together.