Jounalistic+Report+Writing+Term+3

Your journalistic report writing task is as follows:

Last term you all completed a basic recount of an event that you really enjoyed at camp.

This was the first step towards producing a journalistic report about an experience that you are very familiar with and have experienced yourself. Often it is writing done about personal experience that shows your true potential as a writer becuse you know the subject matter the best!

As we are learning about the features required in a journalistic report and reading examples that show these features you need to be forming a ideas in your head about how you will make your recount into a report that could feature in the local paper.

We will look at turning recounts in to reports together as a class and in groups first. During this time we will be able to make our success criteria for each step and then one for our own journalistic reports.

You will also practice editing the work of others and commenting on this work to inform those people's next steps.

Ultimately you will turn your Camp Recount in to a journalistic report that could be part of our next school newsletter or for our local community paper.

Each time you work on your draft you will do so on your page in Room 19's Wikispace. You can expect that your work will be edited by three different people along the course of your drafting. They will comment against success criteria that we as a class come up with for each feature of a journalistic report. The idea is that by the time you finishing drafting you will have been able to make changes along the way that make your report the best it can be. At the end you will edit your own writing (as you have probably been doing as you go along) and finish it by the given deadline (Friday 6th August, Week 3 ) ready for me to provide my feedback.

As a peer editor you must use a different colour text not only from the writer but anyone else who has edited the work so far. You can add your comments and or suggested changes in two ways. A comment in the discussion box attached to the writer's page (make sure this includes specific comments and refers to the text **AND/****OR** in brackets next to the part you think needs changing or is really effective. In the discussion box you can also comment on whether you agree or disagree with any other editor's advice and why. REMEMBER, AN EDITER IS THERE TO HELP. SIMPLY SAYING THAT A PIECE OF WORK IS 'GOOD' GIVES THE WRITER NO USEFUL FEEDBACK. COMMENT ON WHAT YOU KNOW SHOULD BE PRESENT IN THIS TEXT TYPE, COMMENT USING THE SUCCESS CRITERIA AND COMMENT ON WHY SOMETHING IS 'GOOD'.