B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication Writing and Editing Skills Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the TY BAMMC Journalism syllabus under the CBCS scheme, revision R-2019-20. The University has not published an NEP 2020 syllabus for the third year of this degree, and still examines Semesters V and VI on this one, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Writing and Editing Skills
Module I: Tools and Techniques of Editing
- 1 Brevity
- Brevity: the soul of communication Eliminating redundancy in communication
Module II: Functional Grammar
- Refreshing Grammar, Common Errors
Module III: Word power
- Working with words
Module IV: Punctuations
- For media usage
Module V: Style book Crisp writing
- Use of numbers, abbreviations, names and terms
- 1 News Sense
- Finding the right story angle Writing headlines, captions, leads and intros
- 2 Saying it in bold
- 3 Podcast
- Writing for the ear Writing for visuals Story Compiling Difference between writing for print and real time writing
- 4 Net cast
- 5 Web writing
- Resume writing : Telling your story
- Assimilating facts and details Building a narrative Making it pictorial Layout and page design Being a credible voice
- Feature Writing
- 1 Features stories
- Human Interest Stories
- 2 Reviews
- Books, Films, App Analytical, Interactive, Agony Aunt Importance, Voice of the publication, Format Writing obituaries Need for factual verification and tone. Can obituaries be critical?
- 3 Columns
- 4 Editorials
- 5 Obituaries
- Interviews
- Types of subjects Preparing for interviews Preparing a questionnaire Protocol and Ethical Issues
- Writing the interview copy
Reference
- 1 The Editor’s Toolbox by Buck Ryan and Michael O’ Donnell, Surjeet Publication
- 2 Writing for the Mass Media by James Glen Stovall
- 3 Amy Einsohn, The Copyeditor's Handbook, 3rd ed. (University of California Press, 2011)
- 4 The Chicago Manual of Style.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication under NEP 2020. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
The complete syllabus
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