Classification Essay: What Makes A Journalist?

What makes a journalist? A person writing this would probably jump to an answer that is obvious and played out, for example, someone who reports the news, however there is much more to it than that. A person writing on this prompt would have to consider all the different types of journalism that there is and what they really do. The person would also have to take into account how a journalist gets their stories, the rules they have to follow, as well as the research that does into the job. By doing research, shadowing, and even interviewing a journalist themselves a writer would have a very diverse paper that would represent a journalist well.
For this prompt the students need to know how to prove they can write as a journalist. They must write in an informative way that is not bias. Because they student 's writing this prompt are most likely to be journalism majors themselves, they must how that they can write the paper without sounding as if they believe the job is the most amazing. Students need to plan the essay by giving themselves enough time to figure out what …show more content…
Because there are so many different types of journalism it would be hard for a person to narrow it down to choose one or the other and still reflect the carrier as a whole. An easier part to the assignment is just describing the tasks that need to be done for the job. Like they tell every journalism major who walks in the door “ journalism is a watchdog to the community and a mirror to society.” The way to acquire the skills one needs to write this essay is to show up to media writing class and english class then once there actually payattention. Another way to do good in the essay is to take the critiques from the instructors and work on them. Tools to use would be articles and just to use them as templates for the paper so that it resembles work that is published because in the end everyone in that field wants to be a published