Grammar for
Journalists II

When: 9:30 a.m. to noon Friday, June 18

Where: Campus Life Building, Room 100, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. MAP

Cost: $10 for staffers from NINA-member newspapers, or for individual members; $20 for non-members.

Parking: Park in any non-designated space in the Campus Life Building (blue) lot. NIU is closed on Fridays this summer, so there will be plenty of spaces available.

To register: Contact Jim Killam at 815-753-4239 or jkillam@niu.edu. Participants may pay at the door, but reservations must be made by Monday, June 14.

 

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"If you do not use correct grammar, people will lose respect for you, and they will burn down your house."

- Dave Barry
"Ask Mister Language Person"

OK, maybe not. But try these:

• A reporter who uses bad grammar stands little chance of ever being promoted.
• An editor who uses bad grammar will not win credibility with his or her staff nor, more importantly, with readers.
• A newspaper that uses bad grammar will be a community laughingstock.

NINA wants to help your paper avoid all three of those scenarios. After our immensely popular "Grammar for Journalists" workshop last summer, NINA is offering a sequel. With our customary creativity, we're calling it "Grammar for Journalists II."

On Friday morning, June 18, Metro News Editor Neil Holdway of the Daily Herald will present a fun, interactive refresher course
Holdway will start with basic grammar issues: common errors and important rules every writer and editor should know. He'll progress to segments such as:

• "Great Grammar Debates." Discussion about grammatical problems that not all agree on, or rules that have long been taught but that are not followed anymore. What are the trends?
• "Grammatically Incorrect Rock 'n' Roll." We'll play the hits, you'll find the flaws.
• Quizzes. (Relax. You'll grade them yourself.)

Neil Holdway

Neil Holdway is one of the managers on the copy desk of the Daily Herald of suburban Chicago. He's worked at the Daily Herald since 1992, first as a copy editor, then as a systems editor, and then as assistant news editor in charge of the local copy desk before he moved to the news copy desk in 2000. Holdway also is co-editor of the American Copy Editors Society newsletter and has been a presenter at the last four ACES conferences.

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