One of the first things that becomes apparent when writing at a university standard, especially in terms of popular music journalism is the need to change your style from clear cut ‘run of the mill’ essay writing to a focused and stylised form of writing. In my opinion to become a high quality and successful writer the style in which you write needs to interesting, different and personal. Of course is in some circumstances, such as news backgrounders or small inserts personalising the piece may not be necessary or appropriate but to have a style that is recognisable is what makes your work and writing true to you. However, it is also necessary to be able to write to a ‘House style’ which reflects the paper or publications general theme and tone.
From the first assignment to the second, there is an obvious change in writing style and a better regard for proofing and editing work to an extensive degree before submission. Therefore becoming more aware of grammar and punctuation and sentence structure.
One factor that allows writing to progress and become of a higher standard is sub editing “At a most basic level of sub editing involves quality control, looking for factual errors, typos or literals and solecisms to ensure everything is accurate and well written.” (J. Whittaker, 2008, pg 99) Sub editing allows writing to be tweaked and improved to fulfil a magazine standard and many publications have a vast team of subs to ensure all pieces are of a high quality.
Bibliography:
J. Whittaker, Magazine production, Taylor and Francis, 2008, pg 99
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