Tutorial

Posted here is a diagram written down of the process of writing my professional story. Here are the steps once again, listed along with the a detailed description of the steps. I will also show you my specific steps.

Step 1: Look At Examples- Here we looked at examples of types of professional stories in the world today, both on the web and in print form.

Step 2: Pick 5 Topics Of Interest- We wrote down on a piece of paper five topics that interest us and why they interest us. For example I wrote topics including homelessness, environmental issues, abortion, football, and accuracy in the media.

Step 3: Narrow Topics To 3- Then we narrowed the topics to three by choosing the three with the most personal effect on us. Mine were narrowed to the homelessness, the media, and the abortion topics.

Step 4: Narrow Topics to 2- Here we then eliminated one more by proposing what call to action can come from the topics. Here I chose homelessness and media. We presented our steps 2-4 to a small group of peers to get help on defining what are professional story should be.

Step 5: Pick 1 Of The Ideas And Write 1st Draft- Here we began to write our first draft of the story. We had to write it using zero multimedia. We wrote it in the most "primitive" form possible...with paper and a pen. I decided to do my story about helping the homeless by striving to break inaccurate stereotypes about them.

Step 6: Present To Class- We were to read our first draft aloud to the class and in turn our classmates were to give us feedback on a sheet of paper.

Step 7: Create A Blog- We began tapping into the multimedia aspect of professional writing by creating our own blogs on blogger.com. I chose to name mine Ray's Blog.

Step 8: Use Presentation Feedback And Revise Story For The Web- Here in the final step, we used our feedback from our classmates to revise our story. Then we put our story onto our blog pages.

And that is how you go about writing a professional story for the web. Just follow these eight steps and you be there!