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3. Journalism style.

Sun Apr 22, 2012, 12:44 AM

Apr 2012

As a college freshman I had the idea I might like to be a journalist. My counselor recommend the style 101 and warned it was a filter to sort out pretenders.

We started in a big lecture hall and in the second week we moved to a medium sized classroom. In the third week we were in a small room with about 25 people and that was where I bailed out.

I bet the people who passed that class could spot 20 errors in spelling, grammar and syntax just in this one post.

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