When the original 15 teachers met at Marquette University in 1988 to create a course that would combine an English honors-level composition course and a journalism course, it soon became clear that no one curriculum would serve the needs of all schools.

The Intensive Journalistic Writing (IJW) course blends journalism with an English composition course. A non-production, English-credit class, it has none of the demands of layout, design and production schedules. Rather, it concentrates on teaching students modern writing techniques that are used by today’s newspaper and magazine writers. Students who do not have an interest in more »