Università Roma Tre

The course "Forms and Styles of journalistic writing" aims to provide a critical understanding of the most common forms and styles of journalistic writing, such as investigation, reportage, documentary, literary description, cross-media storytelling. The course aims to provide: 1) a thorough knowledge of the most common forms of journalistic writing 2) analysis of some of the most known journalistic texts dedicated to the importance of the style of writing 3) a case study on the relationship between form and style of journalistic writing and the representation of reality.

The aim of the course is for the students to acquire a general idea of the forms of journalistic writing and to understand the importance of style as a cognitive category.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to analyse the importance of the plurality of forms and styles of writing in describing reality.