Final Reflection

I decided to take journalism this year as my elective because I enjoy writing. I have no future plans of going into a career field that involves journalism but I believe that it has helped me expand my writing abilities. I have contributed numerous articles to Cumberland High Schools digital initiative, the Scanner. I choose to write in the Headlines department because I enjoyed doing research on various events and pieces of news. I learned how to research information better, rather than just "Googling" things. I became the Headlines editor but I tended to drift and occasionally write articles for the Pop-Culture section. Now that the semester is over I think that I should have originally signed-up to be in the Pop-Culture section because of the simple fact that one of my most visited websites is perezhilton.com and I enjoy knowing the latest buzz on celebrities, music and movies.In total, I contributed 14 articles to the Scanner and also to my blog. The topics of these articles ranged from AIDs awareness and suicide bombings in Pakistan to PPAC reviews. Every week I contributed a headlines article and every time I had to work at PPAC, I would write a review on the latest show there.
I think that overall I did a good job writing articles. There were certain articles that I feel that I defiantly could have done more research on the subject and write a little bit more. I tried to write about a range of different topics to keep things interested.
I also enrolled in this course after having Mr. Twining freshman year as my English teacher. I love him as a teacher and not only did I learn about English and journalism, but I gained a lot of real-world knowledge. Overall I enjoyed this class a lot; Mr. Twining gave us the freedom to do what we want in class but gave us the responsibility of making sure our articles are in on time.