Kelley Jones- Journalistic Writing

I don't think that writing journalistically is necessarily difficult. The challenge with writing journalistically is converting from an academic style of writing to a concise journalistic style. Most students have only been taught to write in a wordy, academic style and to use advanced vocabulary. We were formerly taught to write in a manner that proves how intelligent we are merely than to just report the important facts and be straight to the point. My biggest challenge is eliminating the wordiness and writing precisely. In addition, the introduction of the AP Style rules has proven to be difficult as well.