Katherine Borgerding-Journalistic Writing

There are challenges in writing for journalism that are different from academic writing. In academic writing the writer must focus on what kind of writing they are doing and what the professor or venue requires of you. But this is also true in journalistic writing.

However, academic writing usually requires the writer to be descriptive and analytical, but writing for journalism allows this only in special instances. Journalistic writing's challenges are related to the strict form of style all pieces should be written in. Small details like abbreviations and punctuation have slight changes. But these are easy to keep track of, because there are stylebooks that the writer can use to check. I do not find journalistic writing to be overly challenging, I enjoy the simple "just say it" way of writing. I have never found the flowery style of academic writing easy to do.