Weekend journ writeshop

spreads to Tagum Sur HS

TAGBILARAN CITY, September 26 (PIA)—Twenty-five student writers of The Mercurian, the official student publication of Tagum Sur National High School (TSNHS) in Trinidad town complete the two-day Campus Journalism weekend workshop September 23-24.

The workshop intends to enhance the writing capacity of students as well as properly prepare them for potential media work in the future, according to the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) in its training activity design.

The same training also refreshes the students in their respective skills as they prepare to elevate and bring their writing skills to the Division Press Con, a mini Olympics of student journalists, added publication adviser Jane Jill Goyenoche.

Already a recipient of the same workshop years back during the national volunteer week in line with the Bayani Challenge, TSNHS availed of the PIA workshops.

Offered in cooperation with private sector partners including veteran media man Ric Obedencio and a Bohol Balita Daily News, a local daily newspaper, the PIA Student Campus Organization, Operation and Production (SCOOP) seminar is an office outreach program available for school writers organizations and community groups.

At the TSNHS, the student writers go through the module writing workshops and learn basic editing even as they earn more skills from the workshops that happen after each skills enhancement module.

Teacher advisers, who themselves were student writers during their student days openly admit that they never had the opportunity to learn from the professionals, a fact that TSNHS writers should take with great pride.

Teacher Zenaida Turan, who was also a student writer in her younger days, said she was glad a module for student writers is already available, one that they then took form non practitioners.

The writeshops include topics in basic news writing, copy reading and headline writing, junior radio broadcasting, feature writing, literary writing on basic poetry, editorial cartooning and photo journalism.

Each topic goes with practicum sessions, writing workshops, critiquing and one-on-one mentoring, as to the activity design.

Kicelyn Cabarrubias, a student writer who also attended the first writeshop three years ago noted that the modules have been enhanced to be better responsive to the students’ needs.

The workshop now comes with inputs on the responsibility of writers especially with the onset of social media and a facility to easily spread irresponsible information, she added. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)