Challenges

I find it very challenging to transfer from academic writing to journalistic writing because with any kind of habit that one has been practicing for over ten years, it’s hard to break! I had a tendency to make sentences wordy because that was a way to “fully describe something”; however, the contrary appeals to a journalistic type of writing. Now, I must make sentences short, concise, and to the point. Also, in academic writing, the paper is not complete without a conclusion. The conclusion was a way of drawing the content to a close but when writing a story for journalism, when you have all the pertinent information, you’re done! It’s still taking some time to grasp on to all the changes.