Megan Gay-Journalistic Writing

The challenges that I face transferring from academic writing to journalistic is the different styles of writing. In academic, they want you to start with the plain intro, body, conclusion, with five paragraphs and a beginning thesis. Journalistic writing is similar, yet it allows you to develop a more broad approach in learning how to write. It requires the writer to sound professional while keeping their opinion out of the story. Although the AP Stylebook is useful, it's a lot of hard work trying to remember every little edit you need to make in your stories to remain accurate with your information. Journalistic writing is deadline oriented, and you have to be absolutely perfect in your story, or it isn't credible to the readers.