Public Writing (1)
The 3-4 period Public Writing class Zoom ID is 673-298-831
The 5-6 period Public Writing class Zoom ID is 172-709-177
The 5-6 period Public Writing class Zoom ID is 172-709-177
020.06.27
Our final session of the semester is simply a day to wrap things up. Please get your portfolios in by class time (or at least by 5 p.m. Friday) along with your reflective essay about the class.
I will be in the Zoom room listening in at class time, but don't really have any major plans for a class as such. It's time to wrap things up.
I am working on grading all my classes today, but if you have a question or comment, feel free to stop by and say hi. We can always go into a breakout room and chat for a minute. If the Zoom room is open but I am not there, I'm probably talking with someone in the breakout room. Wait a few minutes and I'll probably be right back. You are not required to check in today, just get your assignments submitted to the
Also, you can always get in touch with me by email anytime I can help with anything or just to stay in touch.
Thanks for a great class!
JBH
Our final session of the semester is simply a day to wrap things up. Please get your portfolios in by class time (or at least by 5 p.m. Friday) along with your reflective essay about the class.
I will be in the Zoom room listening in at class time, but don't really have any major plans for a class as such. It's time to wrap things up.
I am working on grading all my classes today, but if you have a question or comment, feel free to stop by and say hi. We can always go into a breakout room and chat for a minute. If the Zoom room is open but I am not there, I'm probably talking with someone in the breakout room. Wait a few minutes and I'll probably be right back. You are not required to check in today, just get your assignments submitted to the
Also, you can always get in touch with me by email anytime I can help with anything or just to stay in touch.
Thanks for a great class!
JBH
2020.06.19
This week, we went over a few loose ends from the course text, talking about niche columns and blogging. The opportunities for doing whatever you want to do with whatever subject you are interested in are greater than ever before in history for someone who wants to write something and make a living at it.
While most writers don’t make a lot of money, those who study the market can always find opportunities to write what they want to write about, as long as they can find some readers who are interested in the same kind of thing. The advantage of being online today is that no matter how unusual your niche is, there are probably huge numbers of people around the world interested in the same thing.
Then we talked about our final writing assignment and how to put everything we’ve done together this semester into one place for the instructor to score. There have been six assignments this semester:
1. a public figure profile
2. a review
3. your choice (open topic)
4. group project – proposal
5. group project – presentation
6. letter to the editor
I have already received assignments four and five in the assignment folder. Both were group projects.
For the four other individual assignments, I would like you to create a portfolio and upload it to the Portfolio assignment folder. Please combine the four assignments into a word document. Please start each new assignment on a fresh page. In other words, don’t start an assignment halfway down the page after another assignment. Make sure there is a page break between each assignment. You may use a heading or label to make each assignment more clear, but make sure they do not run together on the same page.
The fifth and final element in your portfolio/word document should be a reflective essay in which you write about the learning experience you underwent during this semester in this class. I am not looking for a class critique, although I’ll be glad to hear any positive or negative opinions about the class in your essay or any time. What I am interested in are your reflective observations about what you learned, what you need to learn, what you want, and what you got from your work in our class.
Please write about your learning, your learning style, your needs, your writing experience, what else you want to work on or learn about in this general subject area (public writing), and any thoughts you have about your experience with each of the assignments, particularly the group assignments. Write about any or all of these topics, or whatever you prefer regarding the class, your writing, and your learning. Please write at least 400 words, and try not to go too far over 1,000 words.
To recap, before our class time next week, June 26th, please combine your best revised versions of the four individual assignments you have written so far: public figure profile, review, open topic, letter to the editor, along with your reflective essay in one word document with your name on the first page of the document. Upload your portfolio document to the Portfolio assignment folder on our class canvas page.
Thanks for a great class!
JBH
2020.06.12
During today's class session we watched presentations of our group projects presenting initiatives to solve public/community problems. Each group should submit any scripts, PowerPoint files, or other documents to the assignment folder.
Again, please remember to complete and submit a second completed Group Project Peer Review form to receive credit for the presentation part of this assignment (3B), along with the first part of the assignment (3A) project. Each student must submit peer review forms for each assignment in the correct assignment folder to receive credit for Assignment 3A and 3B.
Now that we have completed assignments 3A and 3B, guess what's coming next? Assignment 3C -- It's in Canvas assignments for your enjoyment.
Thanks!
JBH
2020.06.05
We broke up quickly into small groups this week to talk about the second half of our group assignment. We will continue working together in groups this week aiming toward a 10-minute group presentation June 12th in class on the problem we selected.
Assignment 3B is posted in the class Canvas assignment area. Have fun and good luck!
JBH
We broke up quickly into small groups this week to talk about the second half of our group assignment. We will continue working together in groups this week aiming toward a 10-minute group presentation June 12th in class on the problem we selected.
Assignment 3B is posted in the class Canvas assignment area. Have fun and good luck!
JBH
2020.05.29
We talked about a couple more sections from our text, on and . Next we moved on to a valuable blog post from Copyblogger (a great site) with 7 Tips for an Authentic and Productive Writing Process. We also continued talking about our group assignment this week, which is posted in the class Canvas website. The first draft is due next week, June 5th, at class time.
Please post your group project (Assignment 3) to the assignment folder in Canvas. One person from the group should post the project, but make sure to include the names of all group members on the first page.
Also, to receive credit for this project, everyone must submit a completed Group Project Peer Review form.
See you in class!
JBH
2020.05.22
This week we started one-on-one conferences with everyone to briefly talk about the biggest things to work on with their writing projects so far. One-on-one sessions continue Monday and Tuesday in our regular Zoom classroom. Make sure you are signed up at the Google doc linked in an Announcement on our Class Canvas page.
At your appointment time, please wait in our main Zoom classroom and I will call you into a breakout room for a chat at the time you signed up for. Please be on time and I will also do my best to stay on schedule.
Email me with any questions and I'll get back to you ASAP.
When we meet as a class again May 29th, we will talk about the next sections of the text, along with finding ways to write like you talk, and continue working on our next assignment, number three.
See you then,
JBH
2020.05.15
We started off the class by talking about scheduling one-one-one conferences with everyone in the class next Friday, May 22nd, and Monday or Tuesday, May 25th and 26th. Limited times are available, but each student must sign up for a brief conference with me. We will talk about your writing, your online presence, your goals for the rest of the class, and any questions or comments you may have.
You can sign up via a link under Announcements on your class Canvas webpage. First come, first served.
After that, we moved on to looking at the text sections on The Lifestyle Columnist and The Metro Columnist. We will continue next time we meet looking at the other specialty column sections of the text.
The instructor also mentioned the upcoming group project before we took a look at a few pieces of student writing together, giving some feedback to a few lucky classmates.
Before we meet for our one-on-ones, be sure to upload all the revised writing assignments you have completed so far, the best versions you’ve got. Upload them in the assignment folder under one project (Your Name/JBH feedback) so I have everything in one place to look over at once. Please get them in the assignment folder as soon as possible so I will be able to look at them. Please be sure to revise your “Choice” writing before submitting your assignments to the assignment folder. I will have some time early in the week, but not a lot after Tuesday to review your writing.
I’ll look things over as much as I can beforehand and give you some feedback, either written or oral, and you should also have three to five comments or questions for me, about your writing, about your online presence, what you have in mind for the class as we continue, and anything else.
Our next writing project will be a group project. In groups of 3 to 5 students, you will work together to create a proposal to solve a problem. You have decided to join a local action group to solve a problem that you feel needs to be addressed. Your audience might be local or national government official, the board of a corporation, or some other kind of center of power that you might be able to influence.
I will post more details about this group project in the next few days so you can get started working on it together. I am still editing it (Saturday), but look for it by Monday or Tuesday.
After this group project, we won’t have that much time left in the semester. You’ll be doing one more writing project and collecting your work into an online portfolio to share at least with me. It would be nice to share it with classmates too. And it just might be something you want to hang on to. That’s up to you.
Homework:
-Get busy on your revised draft of this last “Choice” assignment; turn in all three writing assignments to the Canvas Assignment folder
-Get questions and thoughts ready for our one-on-one conference.
-Watch for the group assignment to be posted here soon and get ready to start working together on your project.
See you next week!
JBH
2020.05.08
In Public Writing this week, we started class by looking over text chapters on the making of a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and read some expert advice on writing humor columns, such as “Be funny.” Ha ha.
After that, we briefly took stock of where we were at the midpoint of the semester -- what we have done and where we have to go.
We should all be caught up on homework now, with a couple pieces of writing in the Canvas area, feedback completed for two classmates on their review assignment, ideas put together about how to build an online presence for collecting some type of online portfolio to share with classmates and the instructor, and a proposal completed for the next project. If you are not caught up, please catch up ASAP.
That next project could be any type of public writing you are interested in that fulfills the class idea of public writing and is do-able in a medium-sized 500-1,000 word piece of writing.
Assume your proposal is acceptable unless you hear otherwise from the instructor this weekend. Go ahead to complete an outstanding first draft before next week’s class. Please post that first draft to the Canvas discussion area under the hearing of “Your Name/My Choice"
When we meet next week, we will continue talking about specialty columns (Lifestyle and Metro), and we may take a look at some of our classmates’ "choice" writing on screen for some feedback and ideas in class. We will start working on a group project in a few weeks after completing revised drafts of our "Choice" piece of writing.
See you in class!
JBH
2020.05.01
Classes agreed that we would stay online for the remainder of this semester in this class. It works just as well for a writing class, and we can share everything we need to share via Zoom. I will be on campus a few days a week for anyone who wants to meet face to face, but it’s a good chance to practice doing things online, which is a future development for all types of communication.
We looked over three chapters of the text, "Working With Editors," "Self-Editing," and "The Elements of a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist." Next week, we will continue going over chapters, looking at "The Making of a Columnist" and the first item under Specialty Columns, "The Humor Columnist."
After going over the text, the instructor asked students about their online writing experience and whether they had established any writing outlets, apart from personal SNS channels such as facebook, Twitter, or Naver. Students should spend some time this week considering and building some kind of web presence to collect (and possibly) share their public writing. You could do this just for a grade, but why not something more? A web page, a blog, whatever....
In addition to planning an online presence, students were asked to choose their own ideas for the next Public Writing assignment. Please submit a proposal to Canvas before class time next week. The proposal must be in writing – one page or less, with as much detail as you can provide.
Week 9, you’ll be submitting that next piece of writing to Canvas and starting an online portfolio of some sort for your classmates and me to review.
Homework:
1. Provide feedback for two classmates’ reviews by next week in Canvas using the sandwich method (positive specific comment/suggestions for improvement/positive overall evaluation of the review)
2. Find an outlet for your writing online; a place where you can upload something online that could possibly be shared with the public (website, blog, etc.). That does not mean you will be required to share your writing with the public, but you did take a course called Public Writing, so why wouldn’t you want to do some public writing?
3. Prepare a proposal for your next assignment. You choose the type of writing. Something in a genre that would be presented before the public that you think fits the idea of this class. Please make sure it is typed, double-spaced, 12 point font, and no more than one page. Not much less than a page either. Think about what you would like to do and what would help you build your writing skills. Post your proposal to canvas before next week’s class.
4. Read ahead in the text, the chapters on"The Making of a Columnist" and "The Humor Columnist."
See you in class!
JBH
2020.05.01
Classes agreed that we would stay online for the remainder of this semester in this class. It works just as well for a writing class, and we can share everything we need to share via Zoom. I will be on campus a few days a week for anyone who wants to meet face to face, but it’s a good chance to practice doing things online, which is a future development for all types of communication.
We looked over three chapters of the text, "Working With Editors," "Self-Editing," and "The Elements of a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist." Next week, we will continue going over chapters, looking at "The Making of a Columnist" and the first item under Specialty Columns, "The Humor Columnist."
After going over the text, the instructor asked students about their online writing experience and whether they had established any writing outlets, apart from personal SNS channels such as facebook, Twitter, or Naver. Students should spend some time this week considering and building some kind of web presence to collect (and possibly) share their public writing. You could do this just for a grade, but why not something more? A web page, a blog, whatever....
In addition to planning an online presence, students were asked to choose their own ideas for the next Public Writing assignment. Please submit a proposal to Canvas before class time next week. The proposal must be in writing – one page or less, with as much detail as you can provide.
Week 9, you’ll be submitting that next piece of writing to Canvas and starting an online portfolio of some sort for your classmates and me to review.
Homework:
1. Provide feedback for two classmates’ reviews by next week in Canvas using the sandwich method (positive specific comment/suggestions for improvement/positive overall evaluation of the review)
2. Find an outlet for your writing online; a place where you can upload something online that could possibly be shared with the public (website, blog, etc.). That does not mean you will be required to share your writing with the public, but you did take a course called Public Writing, so why wouldn’t you want to do some public writing?
3. Prepare a proposal for your next assignment. You choose the type of writing. Something in a genre that would be presented before the public that you think fits the idea of this class. Please make sure it is typed, double-spaced, 12 point font, and no more than one page. Not much less than a page either. Think about what you would like to do and what would help you build your writing skills. Post your proposal to canvas before next week’s class.
4. Read ahead in the text, the chapters on"The Making of a Columnist" and "The Humor Columnist."
See you in class!
JBH
2020.04.24
We started off class as usual, shooting the breeze about when classes were likely to move back into the classroom instead of online. Nobody seemed to know precisely yet, but there are some rumblings about classes possibly being back on campus sometime next month. We shall see.
After that, we went over a few more chapters in the text. We talked about Writing Tips, The Big, Bad, Blank Screen, and On Copyright. We will continue going over chapters on Working With Editors, Self-Editing, and The Elements of a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist when we meet next time.
After going over the text chapters, students broke into small groups to talk about their progress (or lack of it) on Assignment 2 – The Review.
After some small group discussion, we moved on to get some insights into how to do the assignment from a few online sources the instructor shared. We focused on the first two of the four websites below, Grammarly and Wikihow, in our “How to Write a Review” session.
Feel free to use any of them for help:
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-review/
https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Review
https://www.saidsimple.com/content/100887/
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-write-genuinely-useful-reviews-online-5885607
See you next week!
JBH
2020.04.24
We started off class as usual, shooting the breeze about when classes were likely to move back into the classroom instead of online. Nobody seemed to know precisely yet, but there are some rumblings about classes possibly being back on campus sometime next month. We shall see.
After that, we went over a few more chapters in the text. We talked about Writing Tips, The Big, Bad, Blank Screen, and On Copyright. We will continue going over chapters on Working With Editors, Self-Editing, and The Elements of a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist when we meet next time.
After going over the text chapters, students broke into small groups to talk about their progress (or lack of it) on Assignment 2 – The Review.
After some small group discussion, we moved on to get some insights into how to do the assignment from a few online sources the instructor shared. We focused on the first two of the four websites below, Grammarly and Wikihow, in our “How to Write a Review” session.
Feel free to use any of them for help:
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-review/
https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Review
https://www.saidsimple.com/content/100887/
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-write-genuinely-useful-reviews-online-5885607
See you next week!
JBH
2020.04.17
1.We talked about profile assignment part II briefly (Comments and questions from classmates on your spokesperson profile) before the instructor shared the final step of Assignment 1:
For next week, please go back and take a thorough second look at the profile you wrote, along with any questions or comments your classmates added. Please revise to address any questions or concerns that your classmates brought up, and check to make sure that all language choices are appropriate to your audience, the report includes only relevant information, and all information is organized logically. Be sure to include appropriate citations for information taken from outside sources, as illustrated in this online article. This will be your final version which will be evaluated. Please submit it to the class Canvas discussion area as the last reply to your post of the first draft of this assignment.
2. Representatives shared the results of last week’s small group discussions about writing for publication with class. (I’ll include some details about the different things we talked about here in the near future. -- JBH)
3 We continued covering highlights in the textbook -- "Putting Endings First" and "Column Length." Please be prepared to talk about three more sections for next time – “Writing Tips,” “The Big, Bad Blank Screen,” and “On Copyright.”
4. Writing Assignment 2: Review
Homework: #1, #3, and #4.
Have fun!
JBH
2020.04.10
1. How to communicate outside class? We can post contact info and groups names on Canvas and communicate any way you like (kakao, email, Zoom, etc.)
2. Go over text together.
3. Talk about profile assignment. Any problems? Part II of this assignment: Put yourself in a leadership position in the company or NGO a classmate described in their profile. This means you are a member of the corporate/NGO committee deciding on a spokesperson. Do NOT give feedback on your classmate’s writing, grammar, etc. DO make comments about the spokesperson candidate to other members of your committee and/or ask question of the “employee” who created the profile as necessary. Ask about anything you would be curious about if you had this task in real life. Please comment on spokesperson candidates profiled by two classmates. Write at least 150-200 words in each comment. Everyone should get two comments on their profile, so do not comment on one that already has two comments. Deadline: April 17th.
4. Spend time exploring where students in this class could write for publication. This does not mean simply “a blog.” Anybody can start a blog, and that’s a great idea, but for purposes of this discussion, let’s think about public writing outlets that are existing and established. “Existing and established” means some form of written communication that has been around for at least a few months and has published at least 10 articles. It should also have some readers, not just a vanity blog that you set up two years ago for another class and haven’t touched since. An existing, established outlet for public writing. Discuss in small groups and come up with at least five ideas about where we could publish public writing. Name your group first, then choose group leader, secretary, and speaker for this project. Share the results of your discussion next week with class orally and in writing on Canvas. Group secretary should report in writing on your ideas in a canvas post (Group Name/Publishing Ideas) before class April 17th. Group speaker will share ideas with the class on that day.
5. Next week, we continue in book -- "Putting Endings First" and "Column Length" -- Expect another writing assignment soon.
Homework: #3, 4, and 5.
Have fun!
JBH
2020.04.03
In class today, we went over the chapters in our course text on Point of View and Voice together. Students gathered together to discuss each chapter for a few minutes, then led the class through their chapter.
After that, we talked about a writing assignment to be completed in the next week. Have fun with it.
We will also go over the chapters on Beginnings (group 1) and Telling the Story (group 2) next week in class. In the 11 a.m. class, students with student numbers beginning with 2016 and below are in Group 1, and those whose numbers start with 2017 and above are in group 2. Group 1 in the 1 p.m. class consist of those with student numbers lower than 201900958; group 2 are those whose numbers are above 201901390. Please read both chapters, and be prepared to work with a group to present your chapter to the class.
See you next week!
JBH
2020.03.27
I don’t know about you, but I’m really interested in finding out the things I can do with writing for myself. And I’m not just talking about writing a journal or writing love letters or grocery lists or notes to mom.
I’m talking about writing to earn a living.
I’ve been playing around with writing for a long time, writing for newspapers, writing online, doing a lot of editing work for translators and companies, and, of course, teaching writing here and at other universities in Korea and the USA.
And I don’t know about you, but while I like having a steady income, I like even better the idea of working from my home office when I want to.
If you’re interested in doing something like that, we are going to explore some ways of doing that in this course.
At the very least, you’ll be able to work on improving your writing –learning to communicate clearly in English on topics that interest you.
And if you want to do more, you can. It’s really up to you.
There are lots of kinds of public writing. What are some of them?
Let’s look at what you are interested in, and see what we can put together.
This semester, one of the things we’ll be looking at is doing what is called content writing in the online marketing world...
What does that mean?
When online marketers use the term “content writing,” we are talking about writing that is not directly aimed at the process of making sales of whatever product or service we are marketing.
I’m going to share the little bit I’ve learned the last few years about this kind of writing in the English language online content writing world…
I’ve been lucky enough to learn a few things from some of the top content creators in the business…
And while the line between content and sales copy is sometimes fuzzy, a distinction can be drawn.
During the second semester of Public Writing, I focus on direct response sales messaging. That means writing ad copy to sell products and services online and elsewhere...
But in this first semester, we work on content not only aimed at making the sale, but pulling in readers interested in what we are writing about and building a relationship…
This is often done for the purposes of making a sale later on, but some writers do it simply because they like sharing their writing…
If they are doing something else for a living, that’s great, and they can just write as a hobby…
But if they want to do it more than just part-time for fun, they need to make money...
So at some point, they have to find a way to monetize their writing.
What can you do with this kind of writing?
It’s really up to you, and the possibilities are huge.
If you like, you can transfer your skills to Korean language marketing ideas. I’m not as familiar with what’s going on in the Korean online marketplace. I don’t know who the top players are and exactly what they are doing, but I’m sure they are all paying attention to the people and ideas we’ll be talking about in this class.
If you can tell us a few things about the Korean online writing world, I’d love to learn more about it.
But I do know some of the American experts. I have read their material online and I’ve met several of the biggest players face-to-face.
One of those players is Brian Clark at Copyblogger.com
We will be looking at his stuff soon. Sign up for his email course on copyblogger.com if you like. It’s not required. Yet.
I’m going to mix it up this semester; half the homework assignments will be your decision about what you will write, as long as there is enough copy for you to show me your writing.
The other half, which will include the first assignment (watch for it on the web page), will be things I assign. I will do my best to make them useful for everyone.
You will be graded on your writing quality. Here are the criteria I use. I've been trained and experienced in using them to evaluate writing for more than a decade now. But in addition to just making the writing clear, we will also be striving to use good content writing practices, which we'll learn more about as we get further into the course.
After looking at some of your ideas about public writing projects, and my thoughts, I think it’s time for all of us to sit back and think about what we want to do in this class. I want to see you doing some kind of writing on a regular basis, and I will ask that you turn in between 3,000 and 5,000 words total to be scored for quality. That could be in three projects, or five or more. We’ll see how it works. I’ll be giving you feedback along the way, and you’ll be giving each other feedback too. We’ll talk about how to to do that soon.
For now, keep reading the book. I’d like you to present the chapters from now on. We will get you working together in groups to present sections as we continue.
And for next week, please read ahead in the text; I hope to go through the sections on "Point of View" and "Voice." Be prepared to work with other students to present the highlights of one of these sections next week.
The first writing assignment will be coming soon. For now, start thinking about projects that you want to write.
See you in class!
JBH
2020.03.20
Hello Students,
Welcome to the Coronavirus era.
Thanks to everyone for helping us all get through the delayed beginning of the semester, either by attending classes online, or by trying to figure things out and having technical challenges. Most classes online have run pretty smoothly the first week, and we are figuring out the glitches.We will all keep moving forward from this point.
In class the first week, we got to know the professor and each other a little bit, after first thinking about how to best present ourselves with a little pre-writing, and then introducing ourselves to each other in small groups online.
We got a look at the text, talked just a little about public writing and were given instructions to get the book ASAP, read the first few pages, and do some writing online before our next session. Details are below.
The instructor also encouraged everyone to think about ways to get published in print or online, because the best way to learn about public writing is to actually do some public writing. Go for it!
Question:
What does Public Writing mean to you?
This class is about writing for readers.
Writing to convince others to agree with your opinion, writing to sell them an idea, or just writing to inform them of knowledge about something you understand that they need to learn.
In this class, we will be exploring how to express ourselves clearly in writing to people we may not know.
We will look at selling our arguments, and selling our ideas about the way things are.
We need to get and hold our readers' attention, present convincing arguments, and make our messages clear, concise, and on target. It's going to be a challenge, but it’ll also be fun.
Every week, we’ll be writing something. We will be writing something new or improving something we’ve already written.
This is because writing takes time. No writer pumps out perfect prose on the first run-through. Even (especially) the fastest writers need to revise, edit and clean up their copy.
You live in one of the world’s most interesting places in 2020. Kim Jong-un vs. Donald Trump, living near Coronavirus Ground Zero, the power of big brother China (and/or Uncle Sam) in Asian (and world) geopolitics and propaganda, Hyundai, Kia, Samsung, BTS, K-pop, Korean dramas, Korean cinema, Korean cuisine, Korean history, lots of things about Korea are of interest and importance to the English-speaking world. And there are more and more English readers (both first and second language) here in Korea too.
Think beyond these suggestions. What could you write about?
Go for it -- try to think of things you could write about that would interest readers.
Not just Korean readers.
Go beyond the frog in the well mentality and explore topics that will interest readers from elsewhere.
The text is The Art of Column Writing by Standring. Get it ASAP on Amazon Kindle or however you can. Kindle is fastest, but if you have to have a paper copy, good luck getting it quickly.
We will start by basing the course on the book about column writing, along with several other resources that can help us see things more clearly.
This week, please read the Prologue, Introduction, and first part of Section 1 on Point of View in Standring's book.
I also want to see some ideas written by everyone before our next class about what kind of public writing you want to or plan to do this semester. I see an initial focal point being somewhat journalistic or opinion column-ish, but you may have other ideas. I think you have a unique place in the world to be writing from with lots of opportunities to write about things that others might find interesting. And interesting counts.
Possible topic starters?
What it’s like to live in Korea during the Coronavirus crisis (possible written for an outsider who knows nothing about Korea or a survival guide for a newcomer who is stuck here), North Korean geopolitics as seen from Seoul, Trump as seen from overseas (the good, the bad and/or the ugly); a Korean’s thoughts about China, Korean opinions of the U.S., whatever you like that might be interesting to readers.
Things you might write about:
1. What do you think of when you think of Public Writing? (Four or more choices and why they qualify)
2. Possible topics you could write about and who/what media you could write them for (newspaper, magazine, video, etc.)
3. Your interests and background knowledge (in terms of useful writing topics for this class).
4. What would you like to write that would interest readers?
Homework:
*Read text through prologue and profile of Dave Astor
*Address questions 1-4 above in the class Canvas discussion area, and respond, conversation-style, to at least two classmates. For the discussion subject or title use "Your Name/All About Me." Please write 200-300 words in your initial post. In your replies to classmates, say something more than "Great post" or "I agree." Please have your initial post done before Wednesday, to give your classmates time to respond.
You will be getting an invitation to the Canvas soon, as long as HUFS has your correct email address.
Thanks!
JBH
