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most students hate writing essays for one thing we make them choose topics they don't care about who wants to write an essay on mould sports for another thing they think good academic writing means always using five paragraphs or long complicated sentences or obtuse $20 words I'm Daniel Schwab our and I understand why students dread even the word essay that's why byline is presented as a class on historic journalism what I call chrono journalism your student will work for me their editor at the Metropolitan world as a 1930s era cub reporter tasked with digging up forgotten stories from the past and turning them into viable news copy for that they'll get a full English credit and a set of skills they won't find anywhere else bylines unique combination of language arts journalism and history allows me to approach academic writing through the lens of story yesterday's news today and it means I can do three things that won't be obvious to your students first byline teaches critical thinking skills observation inference analysis and interpretation writing is about putting thoughts on a paper if you can't think well you won't write well second I want to inoculate students against the propaganda that's flooding social media propaganda isn't about telling lies it's about creating interpretations this is why every major newsroom gets accused of bias even when it checks its facts the student who learns to separate fact from interpretation is much harder to indoctrinate and I think that's a worthwhile outcome regardless of your politics finally by line makes essay writing creative and inspiring students learn to write hard news and features profiles and columns reviews and press releases and exposes and a lot more 22 full projects over the course of a school year and each of these projects overlaps with academic writing turns out journalism is wonderful training and how to write with a relaxed conversational style while using classical methods of argument the column for instance is really a persuasive essay the hard news colonel vet piece is an expository essay built on an inverted pyramid Aristotle's deductive method of thesis and proof the feature is just a narrative or a descriptive essay that uses the inductive method to make a point of course I don't focus on words like induction or thesis instead I ask students to write about fascinating true stories from history byline is a journey of discovery that will expand their minds and teach them the skills they need to write great academic papers [Music]