Everyone’s A Writer Series

These are a series of PDF hand­outs you can use with your stu­dents to help them become bet­ter jour­nal­ists. They are part of a con­tin­u­ing project, pro­duced by Jack Kennedy.

Writ­ing cap­tion and pho­tog­ra­pher rubric /better photojournalism

Writ­ing bet­ter leads / get­ting your story off to a good start

Brain­storm­ing / com­ing up with bet­ter cov­er­age ideas

Writ­ing reviews / enter­tain­ing and persuading

Writ­ing short nar­ra­tives / sto­ry­telling in a restricted space

4 basic writ­ing styles / you have choices

Writ­ing the col­umn / your per­sonal voice on the page (2-page handout)

Basic story shapes / there’s more to it than inverted pyra­mid (2-page handout)