{"id":6992,"date":"2017-02-03T20:07:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T20:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2017-02-06T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T09:40:08","slug":"writing-in-the-media-article-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/02\/03\/writing-in-the-media-article-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing in the Media article goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Akhust, currently studying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/undergraduate\/comparative-literature-and-english-language-and-linguistics.html\">Comparative Literature and English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a> BA (Hons) programme, has had a viral success with an online article for the module <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/module\/LL530\">Writing in the Media: A Practical Approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the Media is convened by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/index.html?tab=associate-lecturers\">Heidi Colthup<\/a>, and is designed for those who are considering a career in journalism, freelance writing, publishing and related fields. Part of the coursework involves producing a portfolio of original journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer\u2019s online article \u2018What I Wish I\u2019d Known Before I Got a Greyhound\u2019 has so far received more than 15,000 views in just three days. In the humorous piece, she announces: \u2018They\u2019re not real dogs. People will try to convince you otherwise\u200a- but don\u2019t fall for it,\u2019 before listing seven peculiar attributes of the breed.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday 6 February the article has had 63,000 views and has been read over 45,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>To read the article, please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/writing-in-the-media\/what-i-wish-id-known-before-i-got-a-greyhound-5b571dd3662e#.6uj1akm4r\">https:\/\/medium.com\/writing-in-the-media\/what-i-wish-id-known-before-i-got-a-greyhound-5b571dd3662e#.6uj1akm4r<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Akhust, currently studying the Comparative Literature and English Language &amp; Linguistics BA (Hons) programme, has had a viral success with an online article for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/02\/03\/writing-in-the-media-article-goes-viral\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions\/6997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}