This course teaches students to write for multiple audiences in the various genres of English-language journalism. The ability to produce concise, grammatical and lexically accurate English sentences and rigorously check facts is an absolute requirement. In line with professional practice, students will re-write sentences many times in search of the optimal formulation. 

After learning the skills of tightly corseted international news agency reporting and leading article writing, students will be given wider scope to express themselves in features, profiles, columns and reviews.

This writing course also involves news gathering, including interviewing. Participants are required to attend cultural events (at their own expense), contact interview subjects, buy international newspapers and follow the news daily.

Doel:
To acquire the ability to write English with a very high degree of lexical, grammatical and factual accuracy, and full control of the structures, registers and research techniques required to produce professional-level texts in six genres: news writing, leaders, reviews, profile interviews, features and columns. To acquire the editing skills necessary to bring these texts up to publishable standards. To achieve a working understanding of analytical tools in the discipline of media studies and a knowledge of press practice in the Anglophone world (with special reference to the UK and the US). To show competence in comparing both media texts originating from different countries (including the Netherlands) and the social and political role of media in those countries. To analyze how a text needs to adapt as it crosses cultural borders (for instance via the wire services) to achieve impact and intelligibility in the target culture. To finely hone speaking skills in presenting press conferences. To polish and perfect already highly advanced English writing, beyond effective operational proficiency to mastery.