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	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.


On Mon, 1 May 1995, Tomas Guillen wrote:

>      I'm reevaluating our beginning journalism course. Traditionally, the
> focus of such a course has been the inverted pyramid. Should that change
> in light of on-line publications?
Changed?  It applies more than Ever!  Given that only the first few 
paragraphs would viewed on the first screen, the inverted pyramid is a 
must-learn.  The challenge has been to get engineers (who like to write 
like novelists - all the alternatives, then a solution, to write using 
inverted pyramid.)

> Should other writing styles be introduced?
The most important thing with hypertext is that every subsection can be a 
self-contained entity (which referrs back to the home page), and needs to 
be treated like the leading paragraphs of a new story.

> I'd like to get some feedback to better serve our students,
> those thinking of working for a newspaper and those looking to focus on
> cyber news.

Hopefully they will be fully versed in both styles.  I would also suggest 
the Landmark Forum and Advanced Course - specifically the "Structure for
fulfillment" - Conversations for:
	Relationship
	Possibility
	Opportunity
	Action
	Existance
	Completion

>      Thanks.

>      Tomas Guillen


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon May  8 22:35:00 1995