Improve your sports copy in three steps
You can fine-tune the writing on your yearbook’s sports pages with these easy tips on word usage and coverage.
October 28, 2009
Coverage
Photo By Zoe Yim
Localize the big ones
Bring the importance of national and world news stories home to your school by writing about how they affected students during the year.
August 19, 2009
Protocol for covering sensitive issues
STEP 1 -Determine if the issue will be covered by considering the following points:
July 22, 2009
What’s a Sidebar?
Material presented in the clearest, most obvious way. Commonly presented preceded by numbers or bullets. Great way to unload lists of names, awards, etc. from the body of feature copy.
July 16, 2009
Theme Development Package
Traditionally, a yearbook’s cover, endsheets, title page, opening, closing and division spreads together form the book’s theme development package. On these theme pages, both the verbal and the visual are important. Recurring motifs-words, graphic elements, and designs-link these pages just as the theme or unifying idea links the sections of the book.
July 16, 2009
Words and Photos
Sometimes a few words are all that is necessary in order to communicate a theme.
July 15, 2009
Theme-related Coverage
If a theme is truly relevant to a specific school and the student body of that year, it will be reflected throughout the yearbook in non-theme areas by the topics that are covered and the reporting methods used. In the mini-mag of the 1998 Lair, the staff covered a variety of issues in a round-table, conversational-style format that was inspired by their theme, “Communication.”
July 15, 2009
Change in venue makes prom night a matter of seniority
There was no room in the inn. The Holiday Inn, that is. And no room at the Sheraton or Marriott either. In fact, when a fire damaged the ballroom of the Old Town Country Club, reserved for the prom since last June, every ballroom within 80 miles was already booked for the evening.
July 15, 2009
Make them want to read your yearbook!
Yearbook staffs can capture reader interest with stories that reflect students’ lives today. Feature stories should reflect student interests, concerns and lifestyles.
July 10, 2009
No One way to tell a Story
Copy is no longer quote-transition, transition-quote copy written in third person.
July 7, 2009
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