- Summaries
- Letters to the Editor
- Op-Ed Essays: ” … timeliness, ingenuity, strength of argument, freshness of opinion, clear writing.”
” … but not so long that they’re traumatizing. Submissions that are reacting to news of the world are of great value to us, especially if they arrive very quickly. Write in your own voice. If you’re funny, be funny. Don’t write the way you think important people write, or the way you think important pieces should sound. And it’s best to focus very specifically on something; if you write about the general problem of prisons in the United States, the odds are that it will seem too familiar. But if you are a prisoner in California and you have just gone on a hunger strike and you want to tell us about it – now, that we would like to read. We are normal humans (relatively speaking). We like to read conversational English that pulls us along. That means that if an article is written with lots of jargon, we probably won’t like it.” (Op-Ed and You)
- Researched arguments, drawing on NYT resources, integrated with library and internet research
- Rhetorical & Textual Analyses
- Annotations
- Reading journals: my example