Non-Fiction Writing: Editorial Columns

Editorial Column Writing

Now that you’ve had some experience writing persuasive essays using a variety of rhetorical techniques, we’re going to focus this approach even further by doing some journalistic editorial column writing. In this case, you’ll be in charge of the topic, but the audience is going to be the readers of the Hawkeye and/or the Hawkeye’s website.

Assignment Details

Here are the specifics for the assignment and some additional helpful materials:

• Editorial Column Assignment
• Editorial-Persuasive Writing (2014) (The slideshow presented in class)
• Journalistic Writing Tips (Presented in class 4/21/14)
• The Poynter Institute
• New York Times guide to editorial writing
• How to Write an Op/Ed Column (from Duke University)
• HOW-TO-WRITE-AN-OPED-COLUMN (from Harvard University)
• Tips for a “rally the troops” editorial column
• How I write my column (Career and education expert, Marty Nemko)

…more to come