This past semester I have taken a course essential to my major called Persuasive Writing with Matt Elliott. Throughout the semester I have reviewed the 20 most common AP style errors, how to properly write a strategic message planner and feature story, what goes into a media kit and much more. In Persuasive Writing I learned how to write a strategic message …
Category Archives: Class blogs
Final
Prior posts of this blog include in-class exercises for my Electronic Communications course at Oklahoma State University. Every week we practiced conversational-style, online writing focused on assigned articles. We picked one of the articles as our topic and wrote about our perspective on the issue(s) of the article. Our course also had three major projects …
Crescent Intensity
The winterguard team Crescent Intensity preparing for and talking about State Championships. Located in Sapulpa, Okla., on April 6, 2013.
“Cheers, R.”
Photo Courtesy of rexb/Flickr Roger Ebert was a magnificent man. He wrote tremendous movie reviews for years and became a well respected man in his profession. Basically, if Roger Ebert said a certain movie was excellent, it was and you should definitely take time out of your day to see it. He died at the …
Blocking Frenzy?
Photo courtesy of Brickhead Videos/Flickr As of recently, Russia has gone on a blocking frenzy this year. So far they have gone after social media sites Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Facebook and Twitter have been quite complying to the Russian government, but YouTube is putting up a fight. Andrew Kramer’s article describes a few particular links …
Cupcakes Anyone?
I sat down with one of my good friends Christopher Herlihy and talked about his passion for cooking!
Blade Runner Cut Down
Photo courtesy of flickr/Nikolaos Chatzis Oscar Pistorius the Blade Runner is a double amputee athlete. Before the age of one he had to have both of his legs surgically removed. Oscar did not let this condition put him down and neither did his family. His condition was never an issue in the family considering they …
Week 5: Humane Society of Stillwater
In this podcast, I went down to the Humane Society of Stillwater and interviewed Candace to see what she had to say about the shelter.
Is it worth it?
There was an article posted where a father bribed his 14-year-old daughter $200 to stay off facebook for five months. I have a hard time believing that it would come to that to get his child off facebook. It does not say if she had much of a problem on facebook in the article written by …
#Kaepernicking
(Photo courtesy Football Schedule/Flickr) Colin Kaepernick, age 25, is the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, who played and lost in the Super Bowl this past Sunday, Feb. 3. Colin replaced Alex Smith in November of last year. He was a huge shock to the team, he is a 6’4″, 230 pound man, the fastest …
Rachael Maltby 