REMINDERS NO. 2008-1

Please consider the following reminders for this week:

1. Comments on the INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM AND PRINT MEDIA and MY MEDIA AUTOBIOGRAPHY must be posted before our first meeting this week. Failure to do so means zero score or rating.

2. Your own media autobiographies must be posted before our last meeting this week. Failure to do so means zero score or rating.

3. Initial comments on other media autobiographies must be posted before our first meeting next week. You may continue posting your comments the week after next week.

4. Delete unnecessary spaces after your comments.

5. Your posts must include your given name, middle name, and family name in title case. Not doing so means deletion or rejection of your comments.

6. Capitalize the personal pronoun "I" and all beginning letters of your sentences.

7. Capitalize proper nouns: Ilocano, Filipino, Philippines, among others; and proper adjectives formed or derived from proper nouns: Ilocano dramatist, Filipino labor movement, Philippine folklore, among others. Do not capitalize proper nouns that have acquired common meanings: french fries, manila paper, venetian blinds, among others. Do not capitalize prefixes, such as un-, pro-, anti-, among others, when they are attached to proper nouns or proper adjectives: un-Japanese, pro-American, anti-Spanish, except only when they begin a sentence, among others.

8. All punctuation marks must be followed by a space.

9. Write journalism, not Journalism; but Journalism and Print Media.