Hard Work Pays Off:Editorial on Declining School Spirit

(11/14/10) This issue of newspaper I am working collaboratively with fellow Senior Editor Nirali Shah to write an editorial about the declining school spirit at Country Day. I am looking forward to the planning and follow through of our writing plan because I feel like this is a highly relevant topic in the country day community and should be an interesting read for the Day Times audience. I think that this follows learning outcomes #3, 4, and 8 because I am working with others to come up with a project (in this case the editorial) that should continue to develop my journalistic perspective and writing abilities.

UPDATE (11/30/10) Nirali and I just finished writing the rough draft and it looks great. I think we used good teamwork to accomplish the task. During the interview portion of the writing process we split up the interviews evenly amongst ourselves (we had to get many different opinions) and made the process a rather quick one. We then combined our notes and had a second round of interviews (either important new people or follow up interviews) which we conducted together in order to form a similar perspective on the story. To make the writing process a speedy one, Nirali wrote the first part of the editorial then I added on and made edits to her work. She then followed up by doing the same things to my writing. I think that we chose an effective plan that allowed us to work collaboratively yet quickly at the same time. I am very excited to finish up the editorial as I think it represents some of my best newspaper work in my four years on the Day Times. Hopefully the school community will take the message of our writing to heart and start showing up to more non-academic school events!