How has the ‘lockdown’ changed work, community, relationships? What will normal look like when this is over?

I have set an assignment where you can report on your own experience without setting foot out of your door. The task is to use the journalistic writing skills you have learned on the course to write a news feature about how life has been changed by Covid-19.

Remember this is a reporting and writing exercise, not a diary. You need to identify a target audience and the type of publication you are writing for and state that at the top of your submission.

You need to choose a good lead paragraph with impact and break your story into sections using transitions. Use descriptive writing to identify telling details and bring more life to your story.

You can focus on a geographical community such as a close family household, your neighbors or the people in your township. Or you can choose a networked community, such as the fans of a sports team or the followers of a particular type of music. You can write about America if you think you can cope with the scope, but be careful not to be too general.

This is a reflective piece where Im asking you to use your reporting and observational skills and focus mostly on what you have seen, heard and felt yourself. How has the ‘lockdown’ changed work, community, relationships? What will normal look like when this is over?

You should quote at least three people and you can conduct your interviews either in person if you live with them, by phone or by email.

This is a news feature, so you should research and bring in external facts, statistics and anecdotes to support your points and put your experience into a wider context. This is not just the world according to you.

If you wish to state opinions and make an argument in your article, you can include this in a section of your feature. Please bear in mind that you will need to cite evidence to support your argument and also show you have considered counter arguments, like any opinion piece.

This is a wide-ranging assignment brief designed to give you an opportunity to demonstrate what you have learned on the course. The required word count is 1000.

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