At the Univ. of Maine.....
FREDERIC A. MORITZ
A teacher of journalism
Off Campus and On


MORITZ CAREER
MORITZ PUBLICATIONS
A JOURNALIST'S DUTY
HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM WEB SITE
CASE STUDIES: "REPORTING AS A GLOBAL WATCHDOG"
TEACHING AT UNITY COLLEGE
U. OF MAINE: COMM
U. OF MAINE
CREATIVE TEACHING HOMEPAGE
WRITING RUBRICS
SEARCH ENGINES
JOURNALISM RESOURCES
TO PUBLISH
ETHICS RESOURCES
HEROES AND JOURNALISM
DISTANCE EDUCATION
EMAIL MORITZ


If you need a break, come paddle with me on a kayak trip. Enjoy a kayak joke. For guides to improve your writing check out writing rubrics.

In Spring 2000 Frederic Moritz taught one section of JMC 435 Feature Writing and one section of JMC489 Seminar in Media Ethics and Issues. For writings by his students see the class produced Off Campus and On.

In Fall 2000 he taught an individualized course as writing coach helping to produce a Shakespearean monologue at the University of Maine, Belfast.
JMC 435 is an upper level is an upper level journalism course in nonfiction writing for publication. Students with background in news reporting and writing expand their skills and experience by writing longer stories and experimenting with a variety of techniques. The course will explore the twofold nature of features as 1) a light, easy to read, human interest contrast to hard news and 2) a way to explore, in extra color and depth, heavier, more serious issues of the day.

JMC 489 is an advanced seminar aiming to stimulate student thinking and discussion. It involves extensive reading and research on the relationship between mass media and ethics, politics, economics and society. Each student will be a member of a research team which will also invite guest speakers to address the seminar. Each team will strive to identify and develop solutions to problems addressed in this seminar.

Here are some search engines; try them and compare them with a specific search:

Here are some journalism related sites:


Those who seek to publish, please take note:

Here are some journalism ethics related sites:

Some individual ethics codes:



Journalists sometimes explore the nature of heroes and heroic action through feature stories. Here are some resources on the web:

DISTANCE EDUCATION:



As an experiment in distance education Moritz edits and publishes on the Internet the gradually evolving "Writings From A Busy Day" by Christa Koenig, an Austrian/Swiss essayist and humorist. Koenig practices writing in her second language, English, while she raises two children and works in the business of her husband Ernest. Moritz and Koenig collaborate by email on how to integrate hypertext Internet links into essays so that writings published on the web are illustrated and complemented by vast international resources accessible on the web. This technique of publishing can be taught in the classroom or long distance.

March 6, 2001

 

 

FREDERIC A. MORITZ

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