From the classroom to the UNC campus and Greeley community: Earth Reveries.

Last semester, I was introduced to the idea of Earth Reveries while taking Andrew Svedlow's "Earth Reveries: Arts and the Environment" class. Through out the class we read art-inspired works and participated in a project where we built an evergreen tree composed of Starbucks cup. The purpose of the project was to illustrate how much college students waste and how that waste can be shortened by using a mug. From there, the rest of the students of that class finished and went on winter break, maybe to never think of it further. But as the spring semester began, the Earth Reveries events began to pique my interest for sustainability. Thus, my first feature for the College of Performing of Visual Arts was a profile on Earth Reveries.

What I did well for this article was an interesting, descriptive lead that should grab the reader in to know more about why I am describing trash seen around campus. For students who are unaware of what Earth Reveries entails, they can read the story to get more information and some possible events. 

I should work on reading my articles out loud and editing.

I learned from my article that Dean Svedlow had proposed an Earth Reveries-like symposium at another university that he taught at.  I find it interesting that the College of Performing and Visual Arts can be credited for this semester-long event. Before my article and class, I would not have associated art with the environment in the ways that I have seen. 

Applying tips from my internship to Advanced News and Feature Writing class

"Leave your ego at the door"

Every week during my conference call with my internship, the interns are reminded to not take things personally and leave emotions out of this learning process. They are to take the advice as, not a personal attack, but constructive criticism to better their writing and themselves as journalists. I, however, do not write for Canyon News yet. 

I am working under Susana Marcelo in the editing department mostly. I am hoping to better my skills and catch other mistakes in others' writing to improve my own. I have learned a lot so far and as the end of my journalism classes are coming to an end, I have taken the advice of "leaving your ego at the door" and applied it to class. We are here in class to better our writng, our skills. I will not take my mistakes as negative, but a means of help for future articles.

Not only that, but their declaration of principles is something I can take with me and apply to every paper I work for.