Challenges in Writing

Journalistic writing is very different than academic writing, and after writing academically for so long it was difficult to make the switch. English has always been my best subject, and I have always been taught to write complex sentences with advanced vocabulary. Now as a journalism major, I am being taught to write simple sentences with plain vocabulary. After filling numerous papers with long, intelligent-sounding words to increase the length, it is strange to cut down my writing by keeping it short and to the point. There are also a lot of style rules to remember, such as saying healthful instead of healthy, and these types of rules were never taught in English classes.