Post #2

 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27662852?searchText=journalism+writing&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Djournalism%2Bwriting%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A70ad517bb203ade94673eb3d521b9381&seq=7

The Languages of Journalism 


https://www.jstor.org/stable/355804?searchText=journalism+writing&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Djournalism%2Bwriting%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A2dda8186538bba7ddea3d7b7e77c4cc4&seq=2

How to make Journalism respectable 


https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/3.1/news/paradigm/whttowrt.htm

How to structure a journalistic article/choosing a topic/etc 


https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699017736040

Grammar issues in journalism


https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=-KcPYXjrJlMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=mistakes+in+journalistic+writing&ots=zsgTGHoOC9&sig=nwc3DseMLsZkEJg8s8dRZqYobYs#v=onepage&q=mistakes%20in%20journalistic%20writing&f=false

Common mistakes in journalism


https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=vdBOKzu91QEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=mistakes+in+journalistic+writing&ots=QjtTlSc2Uq&sig=g8ISHrzRL26nHTdzrQiJtY-d7Kk#v=onepage&q=mistakes%20in%20journalistic%20writing&f=false

How media mistakes pollute the press


https://www.neliti.com/publications/558913/grammatical-and-mechanical-error-analysis-as-tool-in-writing-improvement-program

Mechanical error analysis


I have finally settled on a topic! I mentioned this in my last post, but I wanted to talk about something within the field of journalism. I want to talk about grammar/structural mistakes within journalistic writing, how they affect information perception, and what can be done to avoid them and make journalistic writing more effective. As I've written for the Sun News here at Utah Tech--alongside my experience as the copy editor--I've come into contact with many, many, many different news stories, and I've found how the organization of the information and mistakes affects the presentation of the information. Bad structure can take a reader out of the story and muddle the information, which is super serious in journalism. If you aren't clearly communicating and presenting the information, it can cause unnecessary confusion. I've also learned that the order in which a writer puts information affects how a reader comprehends the sentence; it needs to be structured effectively for clarity.




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  1. Rylee HjorthSeptember 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM

    Currently, the majority of my sources are from the Utah Tech library, specifically the journal article databases. I've had the most success in the past with JSTOR and ProQuest, so that is what I usually fall back on. A couple are reliable online articles that I found, and I have not looked at any books yet. I do have a textbook about copyediting that briefly touches the effectiveness of language, so I might turn to that later if I need.

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  2. florence08September 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM

    Hi Rylee,

    Thank you for sharing your second blog post! I know you'll be distilling more of your topic interest as you plow through and annotate the sources that you've found. Upon reading your preliminary ideas, so far, I think the PTW-specific angle you might take for this topic will be on "Technical Editing" as applied to the subject of news writing or something like that. =))

    At this point, keep looking for more PTW-specific sources under Technical Editing, etc. and throw them into the mix to eventually direct your investigation more towards the lens of our discipline. Maintain your flexibilty as the sources in the Lit. Review do not need to be directly the same research focus as yours -- as you annotate them, you'll surely find the ones to keep.

    Later on, maybe we can set a quick zoom (or F2F) appointment to brainstorm ideas for your Research Proposal and make the research design more beneficial and applicable to practitioners/scholars within PTW. (As always, feel free to set an appt. with me anytime if you need help -- am here).

    Keep up the good work!

    Best,

    Dr. B

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