Bill Elsen critiques the Technician as he did every day during his week-long stay. He also spent time with individual writers and other staff members working on career prospects, resumes and individual stories. Photo by Bradley Wilson.
lessons learned From Bill Elsen • Writing Coach N.C. State Student Media • October 2005 Rebecca Heslin Technician Editor
Deadline is our main problem and the majority of the little problems would probably be caught if we were making deadline.
Greg Behr Technician Features Editor
I really appreciate the small things Bill has pointed out to us that are detrimental to our credibility. The crappy headlines, the misuse of commas, recurrence of words within subheads and heads and pull quotes. We seem to slap a lot of the key things together at the end of the night, ie. captions, heads, subheads, pull quotes, etc. A little more concentration on these key elements will pay off a lot with our credibility.
Nick Pironio Technician Photo Editor
I learned about credibility how all our little mistakes make us not credible when things like the drunk driving article cause problems.
Josh Bassett Agromeck editor
We have to work as a team on every spread in the yearbook.