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JMC 412 - Writing for Public Relations

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To access the Blackboard login page, please click the course web site link above and then select E-Study Center.

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To access the Blackboard login page, please click the course web site link above and then select E-Study Center.

Log-In Troubleshooting

If you are having problems logging into Blackboard, please click here for help.  You can check the status of your record by accessing the PIN system.  Any holds on your record will be indicated there, as well as the following:

Notes:

Monday, January 14, 2008  

Students who are scheduled will have access.  If you are not fully enrolled, you will need to make arrangements to have the financial or academic hold on your record released:

You can pay for your class by making payment arrangements with the Bursar's office at 270-809-4226.  You can also pay online with Murray State's new online payment system, RACERPAY.  Click here to go to RACERPAY.

Students can check the status of your record by accessing the PIN system.  Any holds on your record will be indicated there.

-  Take the time to visit the CTLT website through RacerNet and "tune up your computer."  Make sure that you have all the latest versions of the necessary programs loaded onto your computer.  For example:  Adobe Acrobat Reader, the MS Office Suite, Java, etc.  If you have any problems or questions their phone number is 809-2535 and the staff is very helpful and knowledgeable.

-  If you have never taken a course via the BB system, take some time and "play" with everything so that you can navigate the site once the class begins.

-  If at all possible, arrange for a DSL hookup from your home so that you can work at a faster rate.  Downloading and uploading of materials takes a long time via a phone hookup.

-  Purchase your textbooks NOW.  If you don't want to order them from the MSU bookstore, they are available through other sources such as Amazon.com.

-  Arrange to read at least one (1) daily newspaper and one (1) news magazine.  Public Relations practitioners must be current with the events of the day.  Especially those events that will affect their client(s).  You will have assignments connected to current events.

Required textbooks and media:

1.  "Public Relations Writing.  Form & Style."  Doug Newsom & Jim Haynes, 8th Edition.  (By Thomsom & Wadsworth).

2.  "The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual" The Journalist's Bible (By Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.).

3.  The PR STYLE GUIDE Formats for public relations practice by Barbara Diggs-Brown.  Published by Thomson Wadsworth.  www.thomsonedu.com.  ISBN:  0-495-00643-2.

4.  Sign up for the free access to the web edition of THE NEW YORK TIMES at http://wwwnytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html.  Click on the "Register now" link and follow the directions.