Sara Lavas- Journalistic Writing

There are many differences between journalistic writing and academic writing. Most students at a young age are taught to include 3-body paragraphs. an introduction, and a conclusion in their papers. Also, most paragraphs have a 5 sentence minimum and all information is just as important as the rest. But if you decide to choose a career in journalism everything changes. There are short sentences, the inverted-pyramid, descriptive AP style, and much more. This causes me challenges because it requires your brain to complete change your rules of writing that have been beaten into your head almost since 1st grade. One of the challenges for me is if you have to write a paper for another class you have to completely switch gears back to academic writing and at times overlap the different writing styles on accident. Also, AP style, such as knowing when to abbreviate, and different types of spelling.