Beginning of Class Writing: 140-Character Summary

Today’s beginning of class writing will be very brief, because we want to spend more time on peer reviewing your Project 1 documents and LinkedIn.com Profiles. Your response for this writing assignment includes two parts.

First, imagine that you work for the magazine that you read for today’s class, and you’ve been tasked with announcing the article that you read on the magazine’s official Twitter feed.

Write a memo addressed to a co-worker with a subject of “Summary of Magazine Article for Official Twitter Announcement.” Briefly explain in once sentence that the following copy (i.e., writing) may be used on the magazine’s official Twitter feed.

Begin a new paragraph and write no more than 140 characters summarizing the article. This limitation actually opens new opportunities for how you think and write. Instead of being too verbose, you have to focus what you say with a laser-like intensity. Include at least one hashtag, or metadata related to the content of the article. Conclude your tweet with a link to the magazine’s website, which will not count toward your 140 characters. Use Word’s word count feature under the Review tab in the Ribbon to carefully check your character use.

Finally, write an APA bibliographic entry for the article that you read for today’s class. Your APA bibliographic entry does not count toward your tweet’s character count.

Copy-and-paste your memo into a comment made to this blog post.

3 thoughts on “Beginning of Class Writing: 140-Character Summary”

  1. TO: Jason Ellis, Assistant Professor
    FROM: Eugenia Pierre, PTW Student
    DATE: 3/13/2019
    SUBJECT: Summary of Magazine Article for Official Twitter Announcement

    The summary below is about an article meant to go on the twitter feed of our magazine.

    Talent Strategy helps employers focus on natural talent instead of relying on skills and qualifications #journalofdentaltechnology https://nadl.org/journal-dental-technology/

    Manfre, F. (2018, August/September). Do you have a talent strategy? Journal of Dental Technology, 34-35.

  2. To: Julian Edelman

    From: Savan De Jesus

    Date: 03/13/2019

    Subject: Summary of Magazine Article for Official Twitter Announcement

    The copy below is for announcing a new article in the magazine on Twitter.

    Theonia and Baker create new #literaryart and help others discover special creativity they didn’t know resided in themselves #conceptualart https://www.pw.org/content/authors_thinking_outside_the_book

    Raphel, A. (2019, January/February). Conceptual art – art term. Poets & Writers, 47(1), 17-18, 20.

  3. TO: Jason Ellis, Assistant Professor
    FROM: Kyrah McFarlane
    DATE: 3/13/2019
    SUBJECT: Summary of Magazine Article for Official Twitter Announcement
    The summary below is an article they are debating to put on a twitter feed of our magazine.
    Laser work is not only used for treating lighter tones, a big change is coming now can be used on darker tones as well. #laserfordarkertones #alluremagazine https://www.allure.com/story/skin-care-terms-glossary-definitions
    Chia, J. (2018, October). The speed of light. Allure, 76-82.

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