English 9.4: Digital Newsletter Writing

Overview of Google Docs Sessions

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Overview | Google Docs

Composing Informative Newsletter Articles with Google Docs

In this portion of the course, our focus is on learning and mastering Google Docs.  Although you've certainly used Google Docs quite a bit over the years, you've likely only used the most basic features —  for most courses, you only need to learn how to type a paper and submit it through Google Classroom.  For this course, you'll need to do the following:

Overview

Session 1: What is a Newsletter? (Audience and Genre)

Session 2: Creating a Newsletter Template (Collaboration)

Session 3: Finding Information (Research and Citation)

Session 4: Organizing Details for Your Articles (Drafting)

Session 5: Expressing the Main Ideas for Your Articles (Revision)

Session 6: Organizing the Newsletter (Collaboration)

Session 7: Refining the Message (Workshop)

Session 8: Identifying Your Audience (Genre)