Yesterday (via in-school field trip) I met Elaine McArdle, an accomplished journalist who has written for the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and the Boston Globe Magazine. Her personality while speaking drew me in immediately, and if I hadn't been to lazy to rifle through my bag for a notebook, I would've taken notes.
Main points in her speech were the importance of being objective when writing and never to insert your personal opinions into an article. Just the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. She also stated that in order to get information from a person you must be friendly and approachable, not harsh and demanding.
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing her story and her insight on creative professions. It's hard to get into the writing world, she said, but with an inspiration like her I only want it more.
3 comments:
Good summary, but as your teacher I wish you fought your lazy disposition to take out your notebook!
Yeah it was very interesting. She had lots of cool stories.
Hi Sam,
Thanks for visiting my blog. I must say that while I appreciate her idealist view of "only the truth" but as humans, that seems rather impossible to do. Even when portrating the "truth", it is still possible to misrepresent the actual objective reality.
Afterall, in academic papers, an opinion quickly becomes a thesis as long as you spend long enough collecting evidence to support it...
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