PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENTS

(PGDMC-105)

SUBMISSION DATE:
ON or BEFORE 16 TH FEBRUARY 2021
 PGDMC-105
SYLLABUS
S.NO. ASSIGNMENTS NOS. MARKS

1. News Stories – Covering major events in your area 4 8

2 Interviews of prominent persons 2 8

3. Identify Classified & Classified Display ads; Display ad; 1 8

Product ad; Institutional ad; Transit ad; Outdoor ad;
Direct Mail ad; POP ad
4. Review of any Radio programme (current affairs/news 2 6
bulletin/interview based programme/feature/talk
show/song-based programme etc.
5. Feature Writing 2 10

6. Article writing 2 10
TOTAL 50
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF OPEN LEARNING
PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MASS COMMUNICATION

PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENTS (PGDMC-105)

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 INDEX
S.NO. ASSIGNMENTS NOS. PAGES

1. News Stories – Covering major events in your area 4 A-B

2 Interviews of prominent persons 2 C-D
3. Identify Classified & Classified Display ads; Display 1 E-F
ad; Product ad; Institutional ad; Transit ad; Outdoor
ad; Direct Mail ad; POP ad
4. Review of any Radio programme (current affairs/news 2 G-H
bulletin/interview based programme/feature/talk
show/song-based programme etc.

5. Feature Writing 2 I-J

6. Article writing 2 K-L
 News story writing
• The students are to write four news stories covering
major events in their areas.
• These stories may be political, economic, sports,
cultural, education or any other such kind.
• These stories carry eight marks.
FORMAT OF A NEWS STORY
 INTERVIEW WRITING
• The students are to write the interviews of two
prominent persons.
• These persons may not necessary be any MP or MLA.
You can select any such personality to whom you can
ask 5-6 questions on a specific topic in which he has a
sound grip.
• These interviews writing carry eight marks.
 IDENTIFY ADVERTISEMENTS
• CLASSIFIED ADS
• CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS;
• DISPLAY AD;
• PRODUCT AD;
• INSTITUTIONAL AD;
• TRANSIT AD;
• OUTDOOR AD;
• DIRECT MAIL AD;
• POP AD
 IDENTIFY ADVERTISEMENTS
• The students are to identify above given
advertisements.
• For this the students have to collect each type of ad
from a newspaper/magazine and paste each ad on a
blank paper and then write the type of that
advertisement.
• This identification of advertisements carries eight
marks.
CLASSIFIED ADS
CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS
DISPLAY AD
DISPLAY AD
PRODUCT ADS
INSTITUTIONAL AD
TRANSIT AD
OUTDOOR AD
DIRECT MAIL AD
DIRECT MAIL AD
POP AD
POP AD
 REVIEW OF A RADIO PROGRAMME
• The students are to write reviews of any two radio
programme.
• The radio programme may be current affairs/news
bulletin/interview based programme/feature/talk
show/song based programme etc.
• The writing of review of two radio programme
carries six marks.
 REVIEW OF A RADIO PROGRAMME
• Observe the objective and target audience
• Critically analyses the story, judge the theme
• See its relevancy to social, political, economic situations.
• Analyse the contents, script, direction, performance standards,
technicalities and other aspect of programme.
 FEATURE WRITING
• The students are to write two feature on a topic of his/her
choice.
• Features are human interest stories about people, places or
situations.
• News features are short (600-800words), less descriptive
• Magazine features are longer (750-1500 words) more
descriptive
• These two feature writing carries ten marks.
 FEATURE WRITING
• To write a feature some general guidelines, common sources
for feature writing, classification of features and basics of
feature writing in summarized form are given in the given
booklet of Practical Assignments
• For more details of feature writing, read the Lesson-5 (Writing
News Analysis, Articles, Editorial, Features) of Print Media
paper: PGDMC-102.
 ARTICLE WRITING
• The students are to write two article on a topic of his/her
choice.
• An Article contains the opinions and thoughts of the writer,
backed by facts and evidence of some events, occurrences,
persons, places, experiences etc.
• Objective of Article writing may be to provide information and
knowledge, to bring some topic or matter in limelight, to
discuss various stories; persons; locations; rising political,
economic or social issues etc.
• These two article writing carries ten marks.
 ARTICLE WRITING
• To write a article some general guidelines and outlines are
given in the given booklet of Practical Assignments.
• For more details of article writing, read the Lesson-5 (Writing
News Analysis, Articles, Editorial, Features) of Print Media
paper: PGDMC-102.
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