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Thomas Linthicum
JOUR320 Anonymous 05/14/2014 |
Really great guy, exceptionally knowledgable and experienced in journalism. He knows what he's talking about when it comes to writing and reporting, and you'll learn a lot from him. Here's the stats: - NO BEAT: that's a pretty big one. From what I hear, all of the other J320 teachers assign beats for outside weekly assignments, but Linthicum doesn't. So you can go to attend a CP meeting for the government meeting story, and you don't even have to leave campus for half of the other stories. - teaching style: alternating between in-class assignments and class discussion. Once a week you'll have an in-class assignment (usually a speaker for ~40 min and around an hour to write a ~300-500 word story). The other day, you'll be discussing methods for a new weekly story topic (health story, business story, profile, police story, etc.). He likes writing lists on the board of techniques for reporting and things to make sure you include in the story. - grading style: fair. He's not especially harsh. He'll be looking at your diction and language style and calling you out on any weirdly-phrased sentences or grammar issues, but it's not like an exact amount of points off for errors (he grades by letter grades, so A+ is 100, A is 95, A- is 90, B+ is 88, etc.). Missing essential facts is a C+, factual error is an F, and he DOES give A+ as well as F. So fact-check! (ESPECIALLY on in-class assignments) Overall, Linthicum's a great teacher. It's still J320, so it'll be tough. Just make sure you've got a plan for getting in your 10 clips before the last class and you'll be alright. |